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Gwyneth Lewis

First Rain in Paradise

Publication Date: 27 Mar 2025

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First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse, through subsequent chronic ill health, and towards a hard-won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in...

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Arundhathi Subramaniam

The Gallery of Upside Down Women

Publication Date: 27 Mar 2025

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Kate Potts

Pretenders

Publication Date: 27 Mar 2025

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Ana Blandiana

The Shadow of Words

Publication Date: 20 Feb 2025

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Ruth Fainlight

Somewhere Else Entirely

Publication Date: 15 Nov 2018

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News & Publicity

Gwyneth Lewis on BBC Radio 4's The Verb

Gwyneth Lewis read a poem from First Rain in Paradise on BBC Radio 4's The Verb, 12 January, ahead of publication in March; reviews in Publishers Weekly & Buzz Magazine.

News & Publicity

Imtiaz Dharker BBC Radio interviews & reviews for Shadow Reader

Interviews on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions, Radio 4's Saturday Live, World Service's Arts Hour, & in Poetry London; reviews in Sunday Times, Buzz, High Window & PW...

Poetry Events

Gwyneth Lewis Launch Events

Online launch for First Rain in Paradise with The Writing School, 6 Apr & in person in Cardiff, 8 May; Joint reading with Pascale Petit at Cambridge Literary Festival,...

Poetry Events

Pascale Petit Launch Readings

Pascale Petit's joint online launch for Beast is on 22 April & in-person launch in Exeter on 14 May; she's reading at Cambridge Literary Festival 24 Apr & Lyra Bristol...