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From Welsh poet Lewis comes her memoir of how she and her husband survived the strains and joys of a prolonged sailing voyage from Cardiff to Brazil in a small boat. Photos and line drawings.

Gwyneth Lewis was made National Poet of Wales in 2005, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She is a bilingual virtuoso, and has published six other books of poetry. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her three English collections.

A light-hearted exploration of the fate of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. By former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis.

* Blodeuwedd, the fourth branch of the Mabingion is one of the most famous and rich of the medieval Welsh tales. It has kings who can't walk on the ground, rapists who are condemned to change into the beasts of the forest, a young boy cursed by his mother and a wizard who conjures a wife made of flowers for his nephew.

Departing on flights of avian fancy or fantasy on several levels, Sparrow Tree moves from considering birdsong as proto-language to examining birds as decorative beings.

Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures: three lectures linking form and politics with the content of poetry by Wales's first National Poet.

A Hospital Odyssey is a book-length epic poem by one of Britain's leading poets, universal but also highly topical in what it says about cancer, caring for loved ones and the workings of the NHS.

Subtitled, "A Cheerful Book About Depression". A unique and refreshing approach to dealing with depression from the author's own first-hand experience.

This might well be the Age of Depression. More people than ever now experience the disease directly or see a friend or relative succumb to it. Among their number is Gwyneth Lewis. And she set about writing this book simply because she wished something like it had existed for her when she was in the middle of her depression.

After reading English at Cambridge, Lewis came to America as a Harkness Fellow, studying at Harvard and Columbia, and working in New York as a freelance journalist. Currently she is a television producer in Cardiff. This, her long-awaited collection of poetry in English, is a striking and ambitious debut. In addition to the above quote, Porter also states that Lewis' "extended title sequence is the most humane and mysterious succession of poem...