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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