Hi Ric, Peter R, Alan H, & all others interested in Lynette Roberts:

Apologies for any delays in trying to reach me my isp was playing up. Alls
OK now tho.

The following bibliography of Lynette Roberts is faithfully reproduced from
a bibliographic typescript found in Carmarthen Public Library's reference
section.  I've been granted permission by Dewi Thomas, Carmarthen Librarian
to reproduce this.

In Carmarthen Library's reference holding for Lynette Roberts, apart from a
photocopy of various articles, PW vol. 19, Tony Conran's articles which I've
supplied over the years, there's a single copy of Village Dialect, John
Pikoulis's obituary from the Guardian and the bibliography. The bibliography
was supplied (the library staff believe) by Lynette in the 1950's, it's
seems to have been compiled before her novel "The Endeavour" was printed.
In the anthology section there are a number of hand-written annotations in
Lynette's handwriting, made sometime in 1985(?) when she lived in
Carmarthen, I have marked these with an *** before the entry.

Any addenda I have made is placed within the squared ellipsis, thus [ ].

The section after 'Manuscripts Waiting Publication' is my own inclusion to
the bibliography of recent references.

If anyone would like a fully formatted bibliography, please send an s.a.e.
to Chris Ozzard, Beach House, Llansetffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales SA33 5LW,
UK.  Anyone with any further information please let me know.  Thanks.

Chris Ozzard
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LYNETTE ROBERTS: (b. Evelyn Beatrice 'Lynette' Roberts, Buenos Aires July
4th 1909; died Ferryside, Carmarthenshire Sept. 28th, 1995)

#Books Published:

POEMS, Faber and Faber, Nov, 1944, 2nd Impression Jan, 1945

VILLAGE DIALECT, The Druid Press, 1944. [500 copies]

GODS WITH STAINLESS EARS, Faber and Faber, 1951. (Heroic poem).

POEMS was chosen as 'Ambassador' book between the United States and Gt.
Britain by the "Books Across the Sea Society" & GODS WITH STAINLESS EARS
exhibited
by the National Book League.


#Poetry In The Following Anthologies:

New Directions, ed. J. Laughlin, USA 1949     ***Poems in Wartime,
ed.Charles Hamblett, 1966
New British Poets, [np], USA 1948-49             ***Anthology by Elizabeth
Jennings, 1958
Poetry in Wartime, Faber & Faber, [nd?]          ***The Chatto Book of
Modern Poetry, 1955
Modern Welsh Poetry, Faber & Faber, 1944    ***Anthology of Poems 1939-45
Celtic Anthology, [np, nd?], USA                     ***Poems from Llanybri,
1966
                                                                        ***+
3 Anthologies of Welsh Poetry, 1985

#Articles , Short Stories, Criticism,  Poetry:

On James Joyce. (Finnegans Wake) La Nacion Argentine.
On Lorenzo da Monaco, (Sienese painter) Life & Letters and La Nacion, B.A.
Reviews on Poetry: for The Times Literary Supplement.
On The Coracle (main article) The Field. Jan.: 6th, 1945.
On Welsh Architecture. (main article) The Field, June 10th, 1944.
On Painters and Art Galleries for Western Mail:South Wales Evening Post.
On Year's Survey of Welsh Writers, 1951-52. The Times Literary Supplement.


#Contributor to Following Magazines:

Horizon. Life and Letters. Listener. New Statesman and Nation. The World
Review. The Times Literary Supplement. The Field, Departure.  Penguin New
Writing.
Tribune. Here and now, USA. Poetry London. Now. Poetry Quarterly. Time
and Tide. Poetry and Poverty. Wales. The Welsh Review. Dublin Magazine.
Fantasy, USA
Furioso, USA New Directions USA Poetry Chicago, USA Voices, USA.
Briarcliff Quarterly, Canada. Epoch, USA Quarto, Agonia, Buenos Aires, &c:


#Novel: Title: "The Endeavour"

Reconstruction of Captain James Cook's 1st. Voyage, 1768-71
Pub1ishers Peter Owen Ltd.  Feb: 1954.       ***entitled "The Endeavour"


#BBC Scripts and work broadcast:

 "Tonight at Eight". Feb. 1939,  Television 15 mins. Dec. 1939, (Author
broke contract) Eight, 15 min: scripts on 'Modern Poets' series for Overseas
and
Transatlantic programmes. May 1945, especially for Latin America, via
British Council


#Poetry on Third Programme, Welsh Regional and Home Service

April 6th, 1944, Home Service.
May, 1945, Welsh regional
November, approx. 23rd 1946. Welsh regional.
April 5th, 1949.  Third programme. (Eight poems)
October 23rd, 1951. Welsh regional
"Gods with Stainless Ears" reviewed on Welsh Regional, May 1st, 1951.
"New Verse Series", June 1950, Welsh Home Service
New Soundings.  Third Programme, January 9th 1952
New Soundings.  Third Programme, June 6th, 1952.
Ballad EL DORADO. Third Programme, Feb 1st & 5th, 1953 & two rpts
0 Lovers of Death, Third Programme Nov. 29th & Dec, 2nd, 1952, poem read by
author,


#Poetry Readings

Oxford University: O.U.P.S. February, 1952
Wadham College, Oxford University. May 1952.
Institute of Contemporary Arts. Autumn 1951.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Spring 1952.
East End Music Association. 1952. Rhythm and 'Movement Group. November 11th,
1952.
Ethical Church, December 9th,  Bayswater Music & Poetry. December 9th, 1952.
Fortnightly in Public houses under the "Poetry and Plays in Pubs" sponsored
by a committee for verse and prose recitation" (Sponsors, John Masfield,
Dame Sybil Thorndike, etc.)


#Manuscripts Awaiting Publication:

1. 'Transcription' of Sir Ralph Radcliffe's three remaining plays
(1519-1559).
Taken from original handwriting of Tudor Period with Lord Harlech's
permission. He is the owner of this valuable manuscript. Article in "Hudson
Review" and
one Interlude to be printed this year in USA

2. 'A historical novel' on Welsh Mediaeval [sic] History.

3. 'Green Roads' A collection of Rural Essays,

4. 'A Carmartheshire Village', Folklore and customs of War years,
Llanstephan,
S.Wales.

5. 'The Fifth Pillar of Song.'  82 New Poems.

6. 'O Lovers of Death.'  Verse Play, as broadcast on BBC

7. 'EL DORADO.'  A ballad of 175 stanzas, based on a true narrative of 4
young men who went to seek gold on the Patagonian plains in 1883, BBC
broadcast.

8. 'Collection of Short Stories'

9. 'Anthology of Hertfordshire Poets'




#Recent References:

1. Alun Lewis, correspondence w Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys, Wales
VIII 28, March, 1948 pp410-431.  [Reprinted in extract Poetry Wales 19.2,
1983.]

2. Anthony Conran, "Lynette Roberts: War Poet" <1st version>, The
Anglo-Welsh Review 65, 1979 pp50-62

3. Anthony Conran, "Lynette Roberts: War Poet" <revised>, The Cost of
Strangeness: Essays on the English Poets of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 1982)
pp188-200

4. Poetry Wales 19.2 (1983)  Introduction by Cary Archard pp5-7
'Lynette Roberts and Alun Lewis', John Pikoulis pp9-29
Lynette Roberts: Parts of An Autobiography pp30-50
The Correspondence between Lynette Roberts and Robert Graves, ed. Joanna
Lloyd pp51-124
Anthony Conran, "Lynette Roberts: The Lyric Pieces" p125-133

5. Andrew Duncan, "Interview with Martin Seymour-Smith. 25.8.93.", Angel
Exhaust [London] 10, 1994, pp 63-77 [cf pp72-74]

6. Nigel Wheale, 'Lynette Roberts: Legend and form in the 1940's', Critical
Quarterly 36.3, 1994

7. Obituary: The Guardian 13th October 1995, p17: 'A real village voice',
John Pikoulis.

8. Tony (Anthony) Conran, "Lynette Roberts", Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997) pp163-76.  [See also p114, 177,
189 & 259]

9. Nigel Wheale, "Beyond the Trauma Stratus: Lynette Roberts' 'Gods with
Stainless Ears' and the Post-War Cultural Landscape", Welsh Writing in
English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays vol. 3, 1997, pp98-117


------------- Chris Ozzard, January 2000





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