Bedouin of the London Evening by Rosemary Tonks
This is a collection of poems by Rosemary Tonks.
'Poets, of course, as we all know, are either of their time or for all timeRosemary Tonks was both. She wasn't just a poet of the sixties - she was a true poet of any era - but she has sent us strange messages from them, alive, fresh and surprising today - there is possibly no other poet who has caught with such haughty, self-ironising contempt, the loucheness of the period, or the anger it could touch off in brooding bystanders - Rosemary Tonks' imagery has a daring for which it's hard to find a parallel in British poetry' - John Hartley Williams, Poetry Review
Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a prominent figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms (Putnam, 1963) and Iliads of Broken Sentences (The Bodley Head, 1967), and six novels, from Opium Fogs (1963) to The Halt During the Chase (1972), wrote for The Observer, The Times, The New York Review of Books, The Listener, The New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes on the BBC. Following the death of her mother, a crisis of religious faith, her divorce and nearly losing her sight, she left London, renounced literature, suppressed her own books, and lived in Bournemouth for the next four decades, her whereabouts known only to family. In 2009 she was the subject of Brian Patten's BBC radio documentary The Poet Who Vanished.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780372389 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780372388 |
| Title | Bedouin of the London Evening |
| Author | Rosemary Tonks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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