Lynn Roberts is an art historian specializing in the history of picture frames, an artist and poet. She has won the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection and various other poetry competitions; she has had poems published in Outposts, Envoi, Agenda, Pulsar and The Tablet. Her light verse has appeared in Lighten Up Online. Her essays on picture frames have appeared most recently in George Stubbs by Judy Egerton, Ford Madox Brown by Mary Bennett, and John Brett by Christiana Payne (all Yale University Press).
Rosa Mundi is the subject of an article by Christopher Howse, Mary's feet on the dusty ground,The Telegraph,Saturday, April 2, 2011 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/8422320/Marys-feet-on-the-dusty-ground.html):
"She is a dark / scared girl in dusty djellabah and veil, / with dirty feet," says a poem by Lynn Roberts called "Icon". It forms part of a short sequence, Rosa Mundi, with illustrations by the author (InVerse, £4.50). Last year five of the poems attracted attention when they were published in The Tablet...
Rosa Mundi and Pandora's Book have been noticed by Suzi Feay, Other People's Launches, Monday, March 14, 2011 (http://suzifeay.blogspot.com/):
'...Most impressively, Roberts draws as well as she writes: both books are illustrated by the author. Pandora's Book features clever pastiches, such as 'Ode to a Microwave by John Keats', and a rejection letter sent to John Milton by his publisher: 'The Op'ning's very rousing, but it drops off when in Eden / since nothing ever happens - neither Violence nor Breedin'...' Another poem imagines the consequence of Apollo taking up blogging: 'Oh, save us from another blog, which seven people read; / how many of us need to know your goldfish doesn't feed?'...'
