Derrek Hines was born and raised in Southern Ontario, Canada. He read Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Whilst based on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall he wrote poetry and published a small list of distinguished poets under the Cargo Press imprint. He is the author of Gilgamesh.
A reworking of the great epic, Gilgamesh. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this narrative poem brings to life a major work of ancient literature for a modern readership.
