{"product_id":"9781780377339","title":"First Rain in Paradise","description":"Author: Gwyneth Lewis\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781780377339\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloodaxe\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Rain in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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 light. This work refuses to keep pain a secret. Shame is a lurking presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwyneth Lewis has won wide acclaim for her versatile and varied writing across genres, most notably in her award-winning poetry in both English and Welsh. This book shows a deepening of her technical, imaginative and intellectual resources which are challenged and exercised to the full. The poems map uneasy terrains with realism and  most importantly  with joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The bracing latest collection from Welsh poet Lewis traces an arc from the trauma of maternal abuse...through aftershocks of chronic illness, self-harm, and shame...to recovery (\"I am found\"). Her lines both stun and revive, moving between Plathian imagery... and disarming candor (\"Underneath, I'm a bit of a sweetie\"). The collection radiates hard-won self-possession... Readers will enjoy discovering this writer of extraordinary gifts.'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, starred review of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Rain in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852896915614,"sku":"ADS-9781780377339","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781780377339.jpg?v=1779064503","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781780377339","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}