First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis ageing Brilliantly insightful and strikingly lyrical

Brilliantly insightful and strikingly lyrical

In the hands of these two poets

muscles and heartbeat of authentic experience

Russian and Czech

damn funny and refreshing takes on the everydayness of our lives

First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis ageing Brilliantly insightful and strikingly lyricalFirst 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 fact, require it, in poems written from the shadows but committed to the