Diaries, Letters and Recollections (Paperback)

Lynette Roberts

ISBN 10: 1857548566 / ISBN 13: 9781857548563

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, 2008

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Paperback. In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary poetry. Her diary observes daily life in a Welsh village in wartime with a poetic intensity: communal harvest, the arrival of evacuees, a frozen water pump, the cadences of voices and the effects of light and rain. Seven haunting stories weave modernist myths of Wales, while her magazine articles explore Welsh life with an anthropologist's eye.Roberts' restless intelligence never limits itself to the local. She writes about Picasso and Le Corbusier, about a visit to Spain on the trail of Lorca, the solemn drama of afternoon tea with the Sitwells, the comic disaster of taking her young children to visit T.S. Eliot. Enquiring, unsentimental, wryly humorous, Roberts engages us with her speaking voice. The publication of Lynette Roberts' "Collected Poems" in 2006 restored her to her place in twentieth-century poetry. This collection of her prose writings, most published here for the first time, accompanied by evocative family photographs, discloses the world that she transformed into poetry. In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary poetry. This collection of her prose writings, accompanied by evocative family photographs, discloses the world that she transformed into poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diaries, Letters and Recollections (Paperback)
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857548566
• ISBN 13: 9781857548563
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A collection of Lynette Roberts’s prose, this assortment relates her life in rural south Wales during World War II, offering insight into a fascinating period of history and showcasing how ordinary people’s lives were impacted by international events. This assemblage includes “Village Dialect”—Roberts’s highly original account of the genesis of poetic language—as well as her notes on her friends and contemporaries Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot and her correspondence with Robert Graves, for whom she helped research “The White Goddess.”

About the Author

Lynette Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Gods with Stainless Ears and Poems. Patrick McGuinness is a fellow at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, where he lectures in French. He won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry, and his work has appeared in The Independent, Leviathan, New Writing 10, PN Review, and Poetry Wales.