Iris Anne Lewis was thrilled to be featured in the prestigious Poetry Wales series How I wrote a poem. Interviewed by Jake Dorothy about her poem Inundation, Iris talks about how her poem sweeps through time from the prehistoric to our modern times, and through space to the Netherlands and England. She also discusses the poetic techniques she used to convey her message in the poem. It explores ‘Doggerland’, the land bridge that linked Britain to Europe in the Stone Age until a massive tsunami formed the North Sea, flooded it, and wiped its inhabitants out of existence. Iris says: ‘It was a great experience to carry out the research needed to write the poem, as it covered geology, archaeology and folk legend. It was also sobering to reflect on the transience of life and human existence within the forces of time and nature.’
You can read the poem and the interview here.
Iris is also celebrating being highly commended for her poem ‘When I think of my mother’ by the judges of the International Welsh Poetry Competition. The biggest and most respected poetry competition in Wales is now in its 19th year and attracted 3,000 entries from 40 countries around the globe.
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