Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’s National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published 8 books of poetry in Welsh and English, the most recent of these is Sparrow Tree. Her collection, Chaotic Angels brings together the poems from her three English collections.
Gwyneth has won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
In 2019 she published, with Rowan Williams, a translation of The Book of Taliesin.
In addition to her poetry, Gwyneth is a librettist and radio dramatist and has also published two works of non- fiction, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression, shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year, and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage.
A memoir, Nightshade Mother was published to wide acclaim in September 2024. Nightshade Mother was selected as one of The Guardian’s ‘Best Biographies & Memoirs of 2024’ and was nominated for the 2025 Sky Arts Literature Award. It also won the Wales Book of the Year 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Award.
A new collection of poems, First Rain in Paradise was published in March 2025.
