First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis Iliad The Angel of History (1994)

The Angel of History (1994) and Blue Hour (2003)

In the section ‘Before’

autism and

completed this modern poetry trilogy

First Rain in Paradise by Gwyneth Lewis Iliad The Angel of History (1994)First 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