Keeping Mum - Softcover

Keeping Mum is Gwyneth Lewis's 6th book of poetry. Her first in English, Parabels and faxes (bloodaxe 1998), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. Her second, Zero Grazity (bloodaxe 1998), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and was a poetry Book Society Recomendation. The BBC made a documentary of the poems, which were inspired by her astronaut cousin's Space Shuttle mission. She has published three collections in Welsh as well as Sunbathing in the Rain. She is currently living and travelling on a boat and was awarded a fellowship by NESTA in 2002.