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'The fact that Gwyneth Lewis writes in Welsh and English is central to the issues she addresses - Lewis is not always easy to locate as a poet, and in part this is because of her originality and her refusal to easily fall prey to current trends or trendiness. Her poetic lineage includes poets such as George Herbert, Joseph Brodsky and perhaps most prominently, W.H. Auden. And this is nowhere more evident than in her ability to resolve through poetry complex philosophical ideas, and to make the creative marriages of words and ideas that rhyme allows.' --Deryn Rees-Jones, PBS Bulletin.
'She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages…intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each.' --Ruth McIlroy, Planet
'Intelligence and unflinching emotional honesty, which is too rigorous to permit easy consolation…instinctive formal ability and an engaging quirkiness of vision… sophisticated and immensely enjoyable.' --Caitríona O'Reilly, PN Review
'She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages…intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each.' --Ruth McIlroy, Planet
'Intelligence and unflinching emotional honesty, which is too rigorous to permit easy consolation…instinctive formal ability and an engaging quirkiness of vision… sophisticated and immensely enjoyable.' --Caitríona O'Reilly, PN Review
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'The fact that Gwyneth Lewis writes in Welsh and English is central to the issues she addresses - Lewis is not always easy to locate as a poet, and in part this is because of her originality and her refusal to easily fall prey to current trends or trendiness. Her poetic lineage includes poets such as George Herbert, Joseph Brodsky and perhaps most prominently, W.H. Auden. And this is nowhere more evident than in her ability to resolve through poetry complex philosophical ideas, and to make the creative marriages of words and ideas that rhyme allows' - Deryn Rees-Jones, PBS Bulletin.
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A diverse spread of ultimately human topics
5 Nov 2006
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Written by Gwyneth Lewis (made National Poet of Wales in 2005), Chaotic Angels is a free-verse anthology of sharply honest and creative poems collected from her three English collections, "Parables & Faxes" (1995), "Zero Gravity" (1998) and "Keeping Mum" (2003). A diverse spread of ultimately human topics, from the disillusionment of a decaying marriage to a prayer for a deceased canine companion to the visceral appearance of a panic attack. A fresh experience on every page. "Drought": It needs torching, all that boring moor / above the village. I planted seeds / in several places till the spindly gorse // bore crimson flowers all around its own / in yellow, then collapsed in black. / Borders I planted with exotic blooms // then I watched as arson laid a smoky lawn / as far as the tree line. Beneath its grass / grew a snowdrop season of broken glass
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