Alun, Gweno and Freda Maggie O'Dwyer What’s Between the Poet and

What’s Between the Poet and the Church

Featuring poems from James Brookes

Other Poetry

His poetry is encamped in that border country where Raymond Williams also lived: pitched between attraction and repulsion

Sasha Dugdale on Ileana Malancioiu’s

Alun, Gweno and Freda Maggie O'Dwyer What’s Between the Poet andBorn in the impoverished industrial valleys of south Wales, the story of Lewis has many varied aspects he was a talented academic, a gifted writer, a depressive personality, politically aspirational in left wing terms, a pacifist by nature who was faced with a war against fascism. In the course of the war he became caught between two women on opposite sides of the world, his wife Gweno and Freda Aykroyd, an ex patriot in India whose house provided