Overview
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.”Reviews
"Lynette Roberts fully deserves her restoration into the twin canon of twentieth century English-writing in Wales and of women's writing." —Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Planet: The Welsh InternationalistAuthor Biography
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.
