Keeping Mum Author:Gwyneth Lewis The latest collection of poems from one of Wales's finest poets explores the effect of a dying language on its speakers and looks at how abuses of language might lead to mental illness. Her investigation begins with a police interrogation, then broadens to take in a mental hospital, where the subject is questioned by a psychiatrist. Finally, she... more » uncovers angels in a sequence of sonnets, finding messengers from another realm inside our everyday lives, speaking to us through depression and bereavement. The book holds at once a religious and a scientific fascination, not with the structures and patterns that explain or console, but with those that mystify and make strange.« less