Mother Tongue

by Gwyneth Lewis

Mother Tongue - Gwyneth Lewis
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Mother Tongue

Recording used by permission of the BBC, read by the author for The Verb, 5th June, 2004.

Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis is one of the most prominent Welsh poets of her generation, and the first writer to take up the Welsh Laureateship. She ...
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