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First Rain in Paradise AC25 intriguing and atmospheric of England’sFirst Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewiss highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in fact, require it, in poems written from the shadows but committed to the