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Photo credit: Keith Morris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gwyneth Lewis was National Poet of Wales<\/a> 2005-06, the first to be awarded the laureateship. She wrote the bilingual words on the frontage of the Wales Millennium Centre \u2013 in six-foot high stained-glass windows, rumoured to be the biggest poem in the world. She\u2019s an award-winning poet in both Welsh and English and has published eight books of poetry. The latest, Sparrow Tree<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award<\/a>. In 2010 Gwyneth was awarded a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award<\/a> for a distinguished body of work. Her two memoirs are Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression<\/em> <\/a>and Two in a Boat<\/a><\/em>. She also writes plays for stage and television and libretti. In fall 2014, Gwyneth was the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer of Poetry and English at Princeton University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gwyneth Lewis’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

Select bibliography<\/strong>:
\nParables and Faxes<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 1995) ISBN 9781852243197
\nZero Gravity<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe, 1998) ISBN 9781852244569
\n Keeping Mum<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Bloodaxe, 2003) ISBN 9781852245832
\nChaotic Angels: Poems in English <\/em><\/a>(Bloodaxe, 2005) ISBN 9781852247232
\nA Hospital Odyssey<\/em> <\/a>(Bloodaxe, 2010) ISBN 9781852248772
\nSparrow Tree <\/em><\/a>(Bloodaxe, 2011)\u00a0 ISBN 9781852248994<\/p>\n