Collected Poems: Lynette Roberts Format: Paperback

The work of an original, haunting, and experimental modernist poet is made available again for the first time in 50 years in this volume. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in wartime. A late modernist, she works on two scales at the same time: the mythic and the domestic. 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.

Lynette Roberts published two collections of poems in her lifetime: Poems and Gods with Stainless Ears. Patrick McGuinness is translator of Mallarmé's "For Anatole's Tomb" and author of a book of poems, The Canals of Mars.