Collected Poems: Lynette Roberts

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Lynette Roberts

This collection of poems by Lynette Roberts is edited by Patrick McGuiness, who provides commentary and a full introduction. He also reproduces Roberts’ own notes – essential guides to her work.

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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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Weight 249 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 × 1.3 cm
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Publisher

Carcanet Press Ltd

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Cover

Paperback

Pages

152

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.914 (edition:22)

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