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'Lynette Roberts is one of the few true poets now writing. Her best is the best...' - Robert Graves; 'She has, first, an unusual gift for observation and evocation of scenery and place, whether it is in Wales or her native South America; second, a gift for verse construction, influenced by the Welsh tradition, which is evident in her freer verse as well as in stricter forms; and third, an original idiom and tone of speech.' - T.S. Eliot.
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The work of an original, haunting and experimental woman modernist poet is made available again, for the first in 50 years. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in wartime. But she is also, or therefore, a love poet and a poet of the hearth. A late-modernist, she works on two scales at the same time: the mythic and the domestic. Those poets and readers who have valued Roberts' work have been experimentalists. Even at this distance, she challenges and instructs, at the level of diction, syntax and achieved form. She relentlessly opens out the language of poetry, she is free with extremes of subject, scale and conception, and her work has flourished in its very marginality. Now, with republication, she is restored as an extraordinary poet in the development of twentieth century British poetry. As a Welsh writer, her best work stands alongside that of her near-contemporaries, David Jones, R.S. Thomas and Dylan Thomas. As a woman poet, her work bears comparison with that of both Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes.
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Newly discovered tresure,
By Edward Carver (Cambridgeshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Collected Poems (Paperback)
First came across Lynette Roberts' writings during a recent BBC TV series on poetry. Some amazing poems, especially 'Llanybri'. A contemporary of Dylan Thomas she was 'rediscovered' to literary acclaim and published very recently. There's more out there, believe me, which remains unpublished which should see the light of day but doesn't because publishing has lost its direction and in the main chases after big returns with a minimum of risk.
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I had previously not heard of Lynette until she was highlighted on a recent TV program. Not unlike Dylan Thomas in her style. She has the amazing gift to make you fully submerge into her wonderful poems. Thank you TV for bringing her to the fore once again. Read and enjoy.
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This forgotton poet has been brought back into the limelight. In her time T.S.Eliot and Robert Graves thought very highly of her; Graves wrote: 'Lynette Roberts is one of the few true poets now writing. Her best is the best' I couldn't agree more.The introduction by Patrick McGuiness is an example of the best of its kind.
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