Books Books
Series: New Stories from the Mabinogion
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 252
ISBN: 9781854115232
Publication date: October 1, 2010
Price: £7.99
Series: New Stories from the Mabinogion
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 252
ISBN: 9781781721254
Publication date: October 1, 2010
Price: £6.39
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‘The successful recreation of myth requires a wiliness that exceeds that of the original myth makers, and Lewis patiently and skillfully demonstrates that wiliness’ – The TLS
A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays out within the wreckage of an ancient spaceship in The Meat Tree an absorbing retelling of the Blodeuwedd Mabinogion myth by prizewinning writer and poet Gwyneth Lewis. An elderly investigator and his female apprentice hope to extract the fate of the ship’s crew from its antiquated virtual reality game system, but their empirical approach falters as the story tangles with their own imagination. By imposing a distance of another 200 years and millions of light years between the reader and the medieval myth, Gwyneth Lewis brings this tale of a woman made of flowers closer than ever before, perhaps uncomfortably so. After all, what man can imagine how sap burns in the veins of a woman?
Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’ National Poet from 2005-6, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She wrote the six-foot-high words on the front of Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre, rumoured to be the largest poem in the world.
Gwyneth has published nine books of poetry in Welsh and English. In 2010 she was given a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award recognizing a body of work and achievement of distinction. Besides poetry, Gwyneth is an award-winning writer of non-fiction and screenplays: Gwyneth’s first non-fiction book, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression (2002) was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year, and her first television screenplay, Y Streic a Fi (‘The Strike and Me’), commissioned by S4C, won the 2015 BAFTA Wales for Best Drama. Gwyneth is also a writer of fiction: The Meat Tree , a space-age re-imagining of the tale of Blodeuwedd, is part of Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series. Her light-hearted novella, Advantages of the Older Man, explores the strange case of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the ghost of Dylan Thomas.
Gwyneth is a librettist and dramatist and has written two chamber operas for children and an oratorio, all commissioned and performed by Welsh National Opera. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the Welsh Academi and a NESTA Fellow.
