The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one
of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of
a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After publishing
two extraordinary poetry collections - and six satirical novels -
she turned her back on the literary world after a series of
personal tragedies and medical crises which made her question the
value of literature and embark on a restless, self-torturing
spiritual quest. This involved totally renouncing poetry, and
suppressing her own books.Interviewed earlier in 1967, she spoke of
her direct literary forebears as Baudelaire and Rimbaud: 'They were
both poets of the modern metropolis as we know it and no one has
bothered to learn what there is to be learned from them...The main
duty of the poet is to excite - to send the senses reeling.'Her
poetry - published in Notes on Cafes 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. She was 'Bedouin of the London evening' in one poem: 'I
have been young too long, and in a dressing-gown / My private
modern life has gone to waste.'All her published poetry is now
available here for the first time in over 40 years, along with a
selection of her prose. This second edition has an expanded
introduction and an additional prose piece.
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