Chaotic Angels
by Lewis, GwynethFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-01
Publisher(s): Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Summary
A collection of poetry from a bilingual Welsh/English poet.
Table of Contents
| Pentecost | p. 10 |
| The hedge | p. 11 |
| The Voledom of Skomer | p. 14 |
| Illinois idylls | p. 15 |
| A golf-course resurrection | p. 27 |
| Looking for the celts | p. 28 |
| A soviet waiter | p. 29 |
| Six poems on nothing | p. 30 |
| Squaring the circle | p. 35 |
| The soul mine | p. 36 |
| A fanciful marriage | p. 37 |
| Welsh espionage | p. 41 |
| The bad Shepherd | p. 48 |
| Going primitive | p. 49 |
| The reference library | p. 50 |
| Parables and faxes | p. 51 |
| Zero gravity | p. 80 |
| Coconut postcards | p. 98 |
| The love of furniture | p. 102 |
| The booming bittern | p. 105 |
| Good dog! | p. 106 |
| Peripheral vision | p. 107 |
| 'Not everyone sees it' | p. 107 |
| The gods still walk around South Wales | p. 107 |
| View from an ocean-going liner | p. 108 |
| Soul candles | p. 110 |
| Flyover elegies | p. 112 |
| Drought | p. 114 |
| Talk with a headache | p. 115 |
| Spring | p. 117 |
| Menage a trois | p. 118 |
| Body | p. 118 |
| Soul | p. 118 |
| Third party | p. 119 |
| Prayer for Bandy | p. 120 |
| 'One day, feeling hungry' | p. 121 |
| The pier | p. 122 |
| 'A poet has four bodies' | p. 122 |
| 'Even a healthy heart is lame' | p. 123 |
| 'The wind on Bangor Pier draws tears' | p. 124 |
| Stone walls | p. 126 |
| Woods | p. 127 |
| Red kites at tregaron | p. 128 |
| Hermits | p. 129 |
| Stone circle | p. 130 |
| Ancient aunties | p. 131 |
| The mind museum | p. 132 |
| The museum curator greets the dawn | p. 132 |
| History lesson | p. 133 |
| Website future | p. 134 |
| Communications | p. 135 |
| On duty | p. 135 |
| Night galleries | p. 136 |
| Will and the wall | p. 137 |
| The flaggy shore | p. 140 |
| A poet's confession | p. 146 |
| What's in a name? | p. 147 |
| Mother tongue | p. 148 |
| Farm visit | p. 149 |
| Home cooking | p. 150 |
| Small holding | p. 151 |
| 'My father was distant ...' | p. 152 |
| A past | p. 153 |
| Her end | p. 154 |
| Aphasia | p. 155 |
| Brainstorming | p. 156 |
| Lifesaving for psychiatrists | p. 159 |
| Consultant | p. 160 |
| Dissociation | p. 161 |
| Early days in psychiatry | p. 162 |
| Finding the bodies | p. 163 |
| Tongue fetishist | p. 164 |
| A teenage craze | p. 165 |
| Therapy | p. 166 |
| A promising breakthrough | p. 167 |
| Spread a little happiness | p. 168 |
| A talent for fainting | p. 169 |
| Psychiatrist, twitcher | p. 170 |
| A question | p. 171 |
| Panic attack | p. 172 |
| Seaside sanatorium | p. 173 |
| Night passage to nantucket | p. 174 |
| The perfect crime | p. 175 |
| Retired psychiatrist | p. 176 |
| Memorial service | p. 177 |
| What they don't teach you in medical school | p. 178 |
| Pagan angel | p. 180 |
| Tarot angel | p. 181 |
| Fire angel | p. 182 |
| Angels of stage and screen | p. 183 |
| Minimal angel | p. 184 |
| Angel of depression | p. 185 |
| How to read angels | p. 186 |
| In memory of Katherine James | p. 187 |
| Angel of dying | p. 188 |
| Angel of healing | p. 189 |
| The good, the bad and the complex | p. 190 |
| Christ as angel of the will of God | p. 191 |
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