Chaotic Angels: Poems in English

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Cover; Description; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Parables & Faxes (1995); Pentecost; The Hedge; The Voledom of Skomer; Illinois Idylls; A Golf-Course Resurrection; Looking for the Celts; A Soviet Waiter; Six Poems on Nothing; Squaring the Circle; The Soul Mine; A Fanciful Marriage; Welsh Espionage; The Bad Shepherd; Going Primitive; The Reference Library; PARABLES AND FAXES; Zero Gravity (1998); I: ZERO GRAVITY; Zero Gravity; II: COCONUT POSTCARDS; Coconut Postcards; The Love of Furniture; The Booming Bittern; Good Dog!; Peripheral Vision; III: THE SOUL CANDLE; Soul Candles;?Gwyneth Lewis was Wales's National Poet from 2005 to 2006, the ?rst writer given the Welsh laureateship. She is a bilingual virtuoso, publishing several books in both English and Welsh. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her ?rst three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003). She has since published A Hospital Odyssey (2010) and Sparrow Tree (2011). ‘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 original.