The Meat Tree

by Lewis, Gwyneth

• ISBN13: 9781854115232
• ISBN10: 1854115235
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-04-01
• Publisher: Seren

Summary

An absorbing retelling of the Blodeuwedd Mabinogion myth, this is a dangerous tale of desire, DNA, and incest within the wreckage of an ancient spaceship. An elderly investigator and his female apprentice hope to extract the fate of the ship’s crew from its antiquated virtual reality game system, but their empirical approach falters as the story tangles with their own imagination. By imposing a distance of another 200 years and millions of light years between the reader and the medieval myth, this tale of a woman made of flowers is made relevant in the distance future.

Author Biography

Gwyneth Lewis is a writer, a poet, and the recipient of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and a Mental Health in the Media award. She is the author of Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression, Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage, and six books of poetry. She is a Fellow at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University.