Collected Poems (Paperback)

Lynette Roberts

ISBN 10: 1857548426 / ISBN 13: 9781857548426

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, 2005

About this Item

Paperback. 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. One of the most important and yet neglected 20th-century women poets is restored to her rightful place in the modernist tradition with this original collection, which operates on both a mythic and a domestic level. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems (Paperback)
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857548426
• ISBN 13: 9781857548426
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.