Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780372388 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 154 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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All her published poetry is now available in this edition for the first time in over 40 years, along with a selection of her prose.. Her poetry - published in Notes on Cafs and Bedrooms (1963) and Iliad of Broken Sentences (1967) - is exuberantly sensuous, a hymn to sixties hedonism set amid the bohemian nighttime world of a London reinvented through French poetic influences and sultry Oriental imagery. This involved totally renouncing poetry and suppressing her own books. In the 1970s, after publishing two extraordinary poetry collections - and six satirical novels - Rosemary Tonks turned her back on the literary world after a series of personal tragedies and medical crises that made her question the value of literature and embark on a restless, self-torturing spiritual quest
--Rain Taxi . --PoetryTonks was a far superior poet - awesomely sick, wickedly goodher ugliness is shot through with vital impropriety, a kind of punk feminism that subtly interrogates the empires of Enlish poetry.--Chicago Review"Tonks consumed the city of London during the bohemian '60s with more elan and euphoria than any British poet of her era. 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 poet
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. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms (Putnam, 1963) and Iliads of Broken Sentences (The
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