Zero Gravity

by Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis's Zero Gravity treads new territory for poetry. Its title sequence is part space documentary, part requiem, drawing on her experience of watching her American cousin, astronaut Joe Tanner, helping to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. As well as reaching out to a loved one engaged on a dangerous mission in outer space, the poem considers internal journeys, including death, that we all have to undertake. The whole collection uses fables of self to view scenes from a marriage and to describe the experience of simply seeing.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 1998

About the author

Gwyneth Lewis was Wales' National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published eight books of poetry in Welsh and English. Chaotic Angels (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) brings together the poems from her three English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum. Her latest book is Sparrow Tree. Gwyneth wrote the six-foot-high words for the front of Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre (which are located just in front of the space-time continuum, as seen on Dr Who and Torchwood.)

Reviews

[Ray Noyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a novel subject! Well researched, as always.