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Summons from a Witch

Emily Berry, 21 May 2026

A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems 
by Lynette Roberts, edited by Patrick McGuinness and Charles Mundye.
Carcanet, 364 pp., £20, November 2025, 978 1 80017 505 1
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... life is that a famous person was best man at their wedding. Dylan Thomas did the honours for Lynette Roberts and her groom in 1939, wearing a ‘smart brown suit’ he borrowed for the occasion. ‘I carried wild flowers and gave Dylan a bunchful of wild flowers for his lapel,’ Roberts recalled. ‘Vernon ...

On Rosemary Tonks

Patrick McGuinness: Rosemary Tonks, 2 July 2015

... English Verse (1973). The living afterlife of her next forty years uncannily resembles that of Lynette Roberts, who published two completely original books with Eliot at Faber, lived through the bohemian London of the 1930s and 1940s, became a Jehovah’s Witness, and died in a West Wales nursing home in 1995. Like ...

On Ange Mlinko

Paul Franz, 5 July 2018

... oasis’), lines whose springy compactness might recall William Empson but also, more immediately, Lynette Roberts, the Argentinian Anglo-Welsh modernist with whom Mlinko identifies as a fellow quasi-exile, and to whom she devoted a lengthy poetic tribute in her last collection. Such lines respond to high comedy’s demand for virtuosity – a quality ...

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