Collected Poems: Lynette Roberts

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.

Preface

ix

Angharad Rhys

Introduction

xi

Patrick McGuinness

Poems (1944)

Poem from Llanybri

3

(1)

The Shadow Remains

4

(1)

Plasnewydd

4

(1)

Low Tide

5

(1)

Raw Salt on Eye

6

(1)

The Circle of C

7

(1)

Lamentation

8

(1)

Broken Voices

9

(1)

Earthbound

10

(1)

Spring

11

(1)

Rhode Island Red

12

(1)

Ecliptic Blue

12

(1)

Poem [We must uprise O my people.]

13

(1)

Woodpecker

14

(1)

Curlew

15

(1)

Moorhen

16

(1)

Seagulls

16

(1)

Fifth of the Strata

17

(1)

Thursday September the Tenth

18

(1)

House of Commons

19

(1)

Crossed and Uncrossed

20

(1)

The Seasons

21

(1)

Orarium

22

(2)

In Sickness and in Health

24

(1)

Blood and Scarlet Thorns

25

(1)

Rainshiver

26

(1)

Royal Mail

27

(1)

The New World

28

(1)

Argentine Railways

29

(1)

Xaquixaguana

30

(1)

River Plate

30

(1)

Canzone Benedicto

31

(1)

Cwmcelyn

32

(6)

Notes on Legend and Form

38

(5)

Gods with Stainless Ears. A Heroic Poem (1951)

Preface

43

(1)

Part I

44

(8)

Part II

52

(4)

Part III

56

(4)

Part IV

60

(4)

Part V

64

(6)

Notes

70

(11)

Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

To a Welsh Woman

81

(1)

Song of Praise

81

(1)

Poem [In steel white land]

82

(1)

Englyn

83

(1)

Green Madrigal [I]

83

(1)

Transgression

84

(2)

The Hypnotist (Welsh Englyn)

86

(1)

Love is an Outlaw

86

(1)

These Words I Write on Crinkled Tin

87

(1)

Two Wine Glasses

88

(1)

Ty Gwyn

89

(1)

The `Pele' Fetched in

89

(1)

A Shot Rabbit

90

(1)

Llanstephan Madrigal

90

(1)

Displaced Persons

91

(1)

Saint Swithin's Pool

91

(1)

Brazilian Blue

92

(1)

It Was Not Easy

93

(1)

Chapel Wrath

93

(1)

Trials and Tirades

94

(1)

Angharad

94

(1)

Prydein

95

(1)

Out of a Sixth Sense

95

(1)

Green Madrigal [II]

95

(1)

Premonition

96

(1)

Mockery

96

(1)

Red Mullet

97

(1)

The Tavern

97

(1)

The Temple Road

98

(1)

The Grebe

99

(1)

He alone could get me out of this

99

(1)

The Fifth Pillar of Song

100

(2)

Bruska's Song

102

(1)

Pendine

102

(1)

Release

103

(1)

Downbeat

103

(4)

Appendix

Radio Talk on South American Poems

107

(8)

El Dorado (1953)

115

(15)

Patagonia (article published in Wales, V, 7, Summer 1945)

130

(7)

Notes

137

(14)

Index of First Lines

151

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