Chaotic Angels

Poems in English

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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Paperback | 27 January 2005

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Written by Gwyneth Lewis (made National Poet of Wales in 2005), Chaotic Angels is a free-verse anthology of sharply honest and creative poems collected from her three English collections, "Parables & Faxes" (1995), "Zero Gravity" (1998) and "Keeping Mum" (2003). A diverse spread of ultimately human topics, from the disillusionment of a decaying marriage to a prayer for a deceased canine companion to the visceral appearance of a panic attack. A fresh experience on every page. "Drought": It needs torching, all that boring moor / above the village. I planted seeds / in several places till the spindly gorse // bore crimson flowers all around its own / in yellow, then collapsed in black. / Borders I planted with exotic blooms // then I watched as arson laid a smoky lawn / as far as the tree line. Beneath its grass / grew a snowdrop season of broken glass

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The fact that Gwyneth Lewis writes in Welsh and English is central to the issues she addresses - Lewis is not always easy to locate as a poet, and in part this is because of her originality and her refusal to easily fall prey to current trends or trendiness. Her poetic lineage includes poets such as George Herbert, Joseph Brodsky and perhaps most prominently, W.H. Auden. And this is nowhere more evident than in her ability to resolve through poetry complex philosophical ideas, and to make the creative marriages of words and ideas that rhyme allows. -- Deryn Rees-Jones * PBS Bulletin *

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Pentecost	p. 10
The hedge	p. 11
The Voledom of Skomer	p. 14
Illinois idylls	p. 15
A golf-course resurrection	p. 27
Looking for the celts	p. 28
A soviet waiter	p. 29
Six poems on nothing	p. 30
Squaring the circle	p. 35
The soul mine	p. 36
A fanciful marriage	p. 37
Welsh espionage	p. 41
The bad Shepherd	p. 48
Going primitive	p. 49
The reference library	p. 50
Parables and faxes	p. 51
Zero gravity	p. 80
Coconut postcards	p. 98
The love of furniture	p. 102
The booming bittern	p. 105
Good dog!	p. 106
Peripheral vision	p. 107
'Not everyone sees it'	p. 107
The gods still walk around South Wales	p. 107
View from an ocean-going liner	p. 108
Soul candles	p. 110
Flyover elegies	p. 112
Drought	p. 114
Talk with a headache	p. 115
Spring	p. 117
Menage a trois	p. 118
Body	p. 118
Soul	p. 118
Third party	p. 119
Prayer for Bandy	p. 120
'One day, feeling hungry'	p. 121
The pier	p. 122
'A poet has four bodies'	p. 122
'Even a healthy heart is lame'	p. 123
'The wind on Bangor Pier draws tears'	p. 124
Stone walls	p. 126
Woods	p. 127
Red kites at tregaron	p. 128
Hermits	p. 129
Stone circle	p. 130
Ancient aunties	p. 131
The mind museum	p. 132
The museum curator greets the dawn	p. 132
History lesson	p. 133
Website future	p. 134
Communications	p. 135
On duty	p. 135
Night galleries	p. 136
Will and the wall	p. 137
The flaggy shore	p. 140
A poet's confession	p. 146
What's in a name?	p. 147
Mother tongue	p. 148
Farm visit	p. 149
Home cooking	p. 150
Small holding	p. 151
'My father was distant ...'	p. 152
A past	p. 153
Her end	p. 154
Aphasia	p. 155
Brainstorming	p. 156
Lifesaving for psychiatrists	p. 159
Consultant	p. 160
Dissociation	p. 161
Early days in psychiatry	p. 162
Finding the bodies	p. 163
Tongue fetishist	p. 164
A teenage craze	p. 165
Therapy	p. 166
A promising breakthrough	p. 167
Spread a little happiness	p. 168
A talent for fainting	p. 169
Psychiatrist, twitcher	p. 170
A question	p. 171
Panic attack	p. 172
Seaside sanatorium	p. 173
Night passage to nantucket	p. 174
The perfect crime	p. 175
Retired psychiatrist	p. 176
Memorial service	p. 177
What they don't teach you in medical school	p. 178
Pagan angel	p. 180
Tarot angel	p. 181
Fire angel	p. 182
Angels of stage and screen	p. 183
Minimal angel	p. 184
Angel of depression	p. 185
How to read angels	p. 186
In memory of Katherine James	p. 187
Angel of dying	p. 188
Angel of healing	p. 189
The good, the bad and the complex	p. 190
Christ as angel of the will of God	p. 191
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