‘ Between now and then, I will offer you
A fist full of rock cress fresh from the bank
The valley tips of garlic red with dew
Cooler than shallots, a breath you can swank

In the village when you come. At noon-day
I will offer you a choice bowl of cawl
Served with a ‘ lover’ s’ spoon and a chopped spray
Of leeks or savori fach, not used now,

In the old way you’ ll understand. The din
Of children singing through the eyelet sheds
Ringing smith hoops, chasing the butt of hens’

Lynette Roberts is one of the most astonishing and brilliant poets of the twentieth century. Though published by T.S. Eliot and Faber in the 1940s and ’ 50s her work unjustly fell off the radar for many years until the groundbreaking edition of her collected poems published by Carcanet in 2005. Twenty years on, this new edition contains an additional sixty-five previously uncollected and unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her growing importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.

About the Author

Charles Mundye is Professor of Modern Literature in the Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. He is President of the Robert Graves Society and Fellow of the English Association.

Lynette Roberts was born in Buenos Aires of Welsh family in 1909 and died in West Wales in 1995. She published two collections of poems in her lifetime, both from Faber and Faber: Poems (1944) and Gods with Stainless Ears (subtitled ‘ A Heroic Poem’ ; 1951). She married the Welsh writer and editor Keidrych Rhys.

Patrick McGuinness lives in Caernarfon, Wales, and works at Oxford, where he is Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and was made Chevalier des arts et des lettres by the French government. His books include two novels, three collections of poems, a memoir and several academic books.

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