Gwyneth Lewis was made National Poet of Wales in 2005, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship.
She lives in Cardiff..
In 2014 she dramatised her book-length poem A Hospital Odyssey for the BBC, broadcast on Radio 4\'s Afternoon Drama, and delivered her Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, published in Quantum Poetics (Bloodaxe Books, 2015).
Gwyneth Lewis composed the words on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, opened in 2004.
Both Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum were Poetry Book Society Recommendations.
Her Welsh collection, Y Llofrudd Iaith (Barddas, 2000), won the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Prize, and her English collection, Keeping Mum was shortlisted for the same prize.
Her other books include Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression (Flamingo, 2002) and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage (Fourth Estate, 2005) and The Meat Tree: new stories from the Mabinogion (Seren, 2010).
Her first six books of poetry in Welsh and English were followed by Chaotic Angels (2005) from Bloodaxe, which brings together the Poems from her English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum, and by A Hospital Odyssey (2010), and Sparrow Tree (2011), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) in 2012.
About author(s): Gwyneth Lewis was Wales\'s National Poet from 2005 to 2006, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship.
Her modern epic A Hospital Odyssey (Bloodaxe, 2010) and later collection Sparrow Tree (2011) are published separately.
Chaotic Angels brings together the Poems from her first three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero Gravity (1998) and Keeping Mum (2003).
She is a bilingual virtuoso, and has published six other books of poetry, three in each of her two languages.
Gwyneth Lewis was made National Poet of Wales in 2005, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship
