I'll have a look at that article anon, Max, I'd say that so far her poems
are more curiosities to me than 'real' presences, I find her vocabulary
lacks inevitability. I know that portrays a state of mind but I suspect that
it's more symptomatic of breakdown than an exploration. But, I want to go
through her book again, I might find it 'takes' third time around.
2009/11/6 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> fascinating, Dave, and fits with the tls online current article.
>
> thanks from Max
>
> Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > I have the Lynette Roberts Collected, Max, and my jury's out. I find
> myself
> > intrigued by her writing, but not entirely persuaded. I know that Eliot,
> as
> > her publisher, questioned her vocabulary sometimes.
> > The Own Sheers programme on her was, to my mind, not too satisfactory,
> most
> > of it revolved around just one poem of hers, which was also a love lyric
> to
> > Alun Lewis, an illicit love lyric, so it made a story, though the
> interviews
> > with her ebullient daughter were enjoyable.
> > She is very contemporary in some respects: for instance in her assumption
> of
> > identity, her fabrication almost of her Welshness.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2009/11/5 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > What were these like? over now, and not online...
> > >
> > >
> > > 15 Oct 2009
> > > 19:30
> > > BBC Four
> > > Louis MacNeice
> > > 6/6. Owen Sheers heads into the trees to explore Louis MacNeice's poem
> > > Woods.
> > > 14 Oct 2009
> > > 19:30
> > > BBC Four
> > > Lynette Roberts
> > > 5/6. Owen Sheers visits a Welsh village to explore Lynette Roberts's
> Poem
> > > from
> > > Llanybri.
> > > 8 Oct 2009
> > > 19:30
> > > BBC Four
> > > Matthew Arnold
> > > 4/6. Owen Sheers visits Oxford to explore Matthew Arnold's bleak poem
> Dover
> > > Beach.
> > > 7 Oct 2009
> > > 19:30
> > > BBC Four
> > > George Mackay Brown
> > > 3/6. Owen Sheers visits the Orkneys to explore George Mackay Brown's
> poem
> > > Hamnavoe.
> > > 1 Oct 2009
> > > 19:30
> > > BBC Four
> > > Sylvia Plath
> > > 2/6. Owen Sheers explores the story behind Sylvia Plath's poem
> Wuthering
> > > Heights.
> > > SEPTEMBER
> > > 24 Sep 2009
> > > 19:30
> > > BBC Four
> > > William Wordsworth
> > > 1/6. Owen Sheers explores the story behind Wordsworth's Composed upon
> > > Westminster Bridge.
> > >
> > > and has anyone read Lynette Roberts, who is big this weeek in the tls
> > > online?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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