Parables & Faxes
1995
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4.18
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After reading English at Cambridge, Lewis came to America as a Harkness Fellow, studying at Harvard and Columbia, and working in New York as a freelance journalist. Currently she is a television producer in Cardiff. This, her long-awaited collection of poetry in English, is a striking and ambitious debut. In addition to the above quote, Porter also states that Lewis' "extended title sequence is the most humane and mysterious succession of poems I have read for many years...Gwynth Lewis amounts to a 'New Generation' just by herself".
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Author
Gwyneth Lewis
Author · 9 books
Gwyneth Lewis was Wales' National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published eight books of poetry in Welsh and English. Chaotic Angels (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) brings together the poems from her three English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum. Her latest book is Sparrow Tree. Gwyneth wrote the six-foot-high words for the front of Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre (which are located just in front of the space-time continuum, as seen on Dr Who and Torchwood.)
