27 Sept, 10.00 - Gwyneth Lewis: Nightshade Mother and First Rain in Paradise
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Gwyneth Lewis, Wales’s first National Poet, was emotionally abused by her coercive mother. In Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling, she outlines in prose the nature and effect of the abuse on her. Refusing to stay in shame and chronic illness, her sixth collection of poems in English, First Rain in Paradise, shows how to move on from trauma and into reliable joy. Gwyneth’s humour and insight prove that resilience can win and that despair can change.
Gwyneth wrote the words in six-foot-high letters on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre and was awarded an MBE for services to literature and mental health. She’s a freelance writer and teacher and lives in Cardiff