First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis ageing The spirit of revival

The spirit of revival

A hilarious collection of pet poems by wordplay wizard Brian Bilston

The poems of Cazique are inhabited by individuals in different environments and predicaments

Brilliantly insightful and strikingly lyrical

First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis ageing The spirit of revivalFirst 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 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