Lynette Roberts

Lynette Roberts (1909 - 1995) was one of Wales' most significant wartime poets and essayists. She was born in Buenos Aires to Welsh parents and settled in Carmarthenshire in the early 1940s, when she also began publishing poetry and prose. Her work received praise from T.S. Eliot and Robert Graves. Well-acquainted with both Alun Lewis and Dylan Thomas, she wrote the majority of her poetry during World War II whilst living in Llanybri. Having been neglected by her successors and out of print for over fifty years, some of Roberts’ verse and prose has recently been re-published by Carcanet in two collections: Lynette Roberts' Collected Poems (2005) and Diaries, Letters and Recollections (2008), both edited by Patrick McGuinness.