Parables & Faxes

After reading English at Cambridge, Lewis came to America as a Harkness Fellow, studying at Harvard and Columbia, and working in New York as a freelance journalist. Currently she is a television producer in Cardiff. This, her long-awaited collection of poetry in English, is a striking and ambitious debut. In addition to the above quote, Porter also states that Lewis' "extended title sequence is the most humane and mysterious succession of poems I have read for many years... Gwynth Lewis amounts to a 'New Generation' just by herself".