{"product_id":"a-letter-to-the-dead-collected-poems-paperback","title":"A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Mundye\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLynette Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePatrick McGuinness\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e' Between now and then, I will offer you\u003cbr\u003eA fist full of rock cress fresh from the bank\u003cbr\u003eThe valley tips of garlic red with dew\u003cbr\u003eCooler than shallots, a breath you can swank\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the village when you come. At noon-day\u003cbr\u003eI will offer you a choice bowl of cawl\u003cbr\u003eServed with a ' lover' s' spoon and a chopped spray\u003cbr\u003eOf leeks or savori fach, not used now, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the old way you'll understand. The din\u003cbr\u003eOf children singing through the eyelet sheds\u003cbr\u003eRinging smith hoops, chasing the butt of hens' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynette Roberts is one of the most astonishing and brilliant poets of the twentieth century. Though published by T.S. Eliot and Faber in the 1940s and ' 50s her work unjustly fell off the radar for many years until the groundbreaking edition of her collected poems published by Carcanet in 2005. Twenty years on, this new edition contains an additional sixty-five previously uncollected and unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her growing importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Mundye\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern Literature in the Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. He is President of the Robert Graves Society and Fellow of the English Association.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynette Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Buenos Aires of Welsh family in 1909 and died in West Wales in 1995. She published two collections of poems in her lifetime, both from Faber and Faber: \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (1944) and \u003ci\u003eGods with Stainless Ears\u003c\/i\u003e (subtitled ' A Heroic Poem'; 1951). She married the Welsh writer and editor Keidrych Rhys.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick McGuinness\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Caernarfon, Wales, and works at Oxford, where he is Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and was made \u003ci\u003eChevalier des arts et des lettres\u003c\/i\u003e by the French government. His books include two novels, three collections of poems, a memoir and several academic books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451320975609,"sku":"9781800175051","price":48.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Z9ntkyx2K29781800175051.webp?v=1772053449","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-letter-to-the-dead-collected-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}