First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis Iliad One of our foremost commentators

One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English

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taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988

In the section ‘Before’

First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis Iliad One of our foremost commentatorsFirst 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