Jenny LewisJenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. Her father was born in Blaenclyddach and she comes from a long line of Welsh miners who worked at Trehafod colliery in the Rhondda. She has publishe four full collections of poetry and two chapbooks in English and Arabic with Adnan al-Sayegh (Mulfran Press, 2013/ 14) as part of the award-winning, Arts Council-funded ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ project which aims to build bridges and foster friendships between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Her re-imagining of the Gilgamesh epic, Gilgamesh Retold, published by Carcanet in October 2018, was a New Statesman Book of the Year, a Carcanet Book of the Year and a London Review of Books ‘Book of the Week’ on publication. She is currently completing a PhD on Gilgamesh at Goldsmiths, London University. Read More Read Less