Gwyneth Lewis on the Writing Process

In this video, poet Gwyneth Lewis talks to Stanford's Hume Writing Center Associate Director Hilton Obenzinger about the writing process.

Gwyneth Lewis was appointed Wale's first National Poet from 2005-06. She has published six books of poetry in Welsh and English. Her first collection in English, Parables & Faxes (Bloodaxe, 1995) won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was short listed for the Forward, as was her second book, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe, 1998). Chaotic Angels collects her first three books of poetry in English.

Lewis' first non-fiction book, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression (Flamingo 2002), was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year and was recently broadcast as a play on BBC Radio 4. She is also a librettist and an award-winning playwright.

In 200-10 she was the Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.

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