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\"Gwyneth<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Parables & Faxes<\/em> won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Published in 1995, Parables & Faxes<\/em> was Gwyneth\u2019s first collection in English. The \u2018parables\u2019 of the title refer to stories of self, including a woman who gets too intimate with a hedge, the Oxford Booklicker and holiday idylls with cousins in Illinois. The title sequence pitches parables against the more realistic \u2018faxes\u2019, to end up at a third destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of her debut in English, Joseph Brodsky wrote: \u2018<\/em>Felicitous, urbane, heartbreaking, the poems of Gwyneth Lewis form a universe whose planets use language for oxygen and thus are inhabitable\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Porter commented: \u2018Gwyneth Lewis has so many of the gifts required for good poetry: command of form, with improvisation enlivening tradition; supple rhythm; originality of subject matter and the right eye to pin down detail; humour, both sardonic and direct; and, above all, commitment to human feeling. The extended title sequence is the most humane and mysterious succession of poems I have read for many years. It is simply a masterpiece\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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