{"id":166,"date":"2024-04-24T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:14:18","slug":"chaotic-angels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/chaotic-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-image-167\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chaotic-angels-768x1200-1-192x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Gwyneth Lewis: Chaotic Angels\" class=\"wp-image-167\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chaotic-angels-768x1200-1-192x300.jpeg 192w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chaotic-angels-768x1200-1-655x1024.jpeg 655w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/chaotic-angels-768x1200-1.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Chaotic Angels<\/em> brings together the poems from Gwyneth Lewis\u2019s three English collections, <em>Parables &amp; Faxes<\/em> (1995), <em>Zero Gravity<\/em> (1998) and <em>Keeping Mum<\/em> (2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1148859?h=0b853bb6e3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1148859\">Gwyneth Lewis<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/bloodaxe\">Bloodaxe Books<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the DVD-book&nbsp;<em>In Person: 30 Poets<\/em>, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce &amp; edited by Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018Intelligence 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\u2019.<\/p>\n<cite>Caitr\u00edona O\u2019Reilly, <em>PN Review<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each\u2019.<\/p>\n<cite>Ruth McElroy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018The 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\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>Deryn Rees-Jones, <em>Poetry Book Society Bulletin<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Hospital-Odyssey-Gwyneth-Lewis\/dp\/1852248777\/wwwgwynethlew-21\">Publisher: Bloodaxe books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from Gwyneth Lewis\u2019s three English collections, Parables &amp; Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003). Gwyneth Lewis from Bloodaxe Books on Vimeo. 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