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Two in a Boat
A Marital Rite of Passage
Häftad, 2006
137 kr
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In her forties Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life – a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC – for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties."We bought our first sailing boat by …
Poetry Detective
How to Read and Write Poetry Past Fear
Inbunden, 2027
647 kr
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From the first National Poet of Wales, a down-to-earth, investigative approach to unraveling the mystery of reading and writing poetryHave you ever thought that poetry is a mystery designed to baffle you or even make you feel inadequate? In Poetry Detective, Gwyneth Lewis helps readers get beyond …
Poetry Detective
How to Read and Write Poetry Past Fear
Häftad, 2027
234 kr
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From the first National Poet of Wales, a down-to-earth, investigative approach to unraveling the mystery of reading and writing poetryHave you ever thought that poetry is a mystery designed to baffle you or even make you feel inadequate? In Poetry Detective, Gwyneth Lewis helps readers get beyond …
Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved
The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths
Av Roch Cantwell, Griselda Cooper m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
521 kr
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One of the most dramatic changes to women''s lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death (CEMD), now the …
Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved
The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths
Av James Owen Drife, Gwyneth Lewis m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
495 kr
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One of the most dramatic changes to women's lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death (CEMD), now the …
Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved
The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths
Av Roch Cantwell, Griselda Cooper m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
521 kr
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One of the most dramatic changes to women''s lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death (CEMD), now the …
Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved
The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths
Av James Owen Drife, Gwyneth Lewis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
975 kr
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One of the most dramatic changes to women's lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death (CEMD), now the …
Sparrow Tree
E-bok, 2015
146 kr
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Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) Gwyneth Lewis''s highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and humming-birds as well as the sparrows of the …
Quantum Poetics
Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
Häftad, 2015
148 kr
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In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity …
Hospital Odyssey
E-bok, 2015
186 kr
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A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body''s inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when …
Chaotic Angels
Poems in English
E-bok, 2015
186 kr
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Gwyneth Lewis was Wales''s National Poet from 2005 to 2006, the first writer given the Welsh laureateship. She is a bilingual virtuoso, publishing several books in both English and Welsh. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her ?rst three English collections, Parables & Faxes (1995), Zero …
Quantum Poetics
Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
E-bok, 2015
167 kr
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In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity …
First Rain in Paradise
Häftad, 2025
166 kr
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First 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 …
First Rain in Paradise
E-bok, 2025
161 kr
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First 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 …
Advantages of the Older Man
E-bok, 2014
110 kr
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What could be worse than being stuck with a dead poet on a health kick? Lots, if you happen to be Jennie, a lonely and lovesick twenty-something from Swansea with everything to live for. In an attempt to win the affections of moody poet Peter, Jennie makes a pact with the shade of Dylan Thomas. It …
Archipelago
A Reader
Av Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of …
Chaotic Angels
Collected Poems in English
Häftad, 2005
161 kr
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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, three in each of her two languages. Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her first three English …
Hospital Odyssey
Häftad, 2010
172 kr
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A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when …
Sparrow Tree
Häftad, 2011
134 kr
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Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and hummingbirds as well as the sparrows of the title. The book explores birds as mouthpieces for …
Nightshade Mother
A Disentangling
Inbunden, 2024
221 kr
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In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, keeping diaries since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates …
Nightshade Mother
A Disentangling
Häftad, 2026
131 kr
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In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, keeping diaries since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates …
Nightshade Mother
A Disentangling
E-bok, 2024
146 kr
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In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, keeping diaries since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates …
Nightshade Mother
A Disentangling
E-bok, 2024
302 kr
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In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, keeping diaries since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates …
Advantages of an Older Man
Häftad, 2014
111 kr
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A light-hearted novella exploring the strange case of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. The woman meets a rather different Dylan from the one she knows by repute, one who doesn't really fit in with the ghosts of other poets …
Return / Yn Ôl
Av Gwyneth Lewis, Rhodri Jones
Häftad, 2006
218 kr
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Born in Gwynedd, his father Welsh, his mother from Luxembourg, Rhodri Jones grew up speaking Welsh, English and German. For the past two decades he has travelled widely in Central America, Europe, Africa and the Far East, building up an astounding photographic portfolio with images ranging from the …
Meat Tree
Häftad, 2010
111 kr
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New Stories from the Mabinogion is an exciting series of contemporary novels by leading authors, reworking ancient Celtic myth cycles. The first two stories by Owen Sheers and Russell Celyn Jones were published in October 2009 to great acclaim, with reviews in The Telegraph, The Times, The …
