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Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’s National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published seven 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. A Hospital Odyssey is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2010. (From Gwyneth Lewis’s home page)

This film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce is from the DVD-book IN PERSON: 30 POETS, ed. Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008):
Bloodaxe Books – In Person

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