The English poet Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) is overlooked, underrated, and undervalued, but why? Part of the reason is that women poets in the 1960s were mostly ignored; another is that at the peak of her poetic abilities, she gave up writing altogether and disappeared.
I’d not known about Tonks’s life and work, so thank you for this profile, Sean. I feel much compassion for her, and think I can understand why she stopped writing poems (at least for public consumption).
...damn. Gotta get back to keeping up with this Substack, Sean. Thanks for the Tonks...
I’d not known about Tonks’s life and work, so thank you for this profile, Sean. I feel much compassion for her, and think I can understand why she stopped writing poems (at least for public consumption).
Thanks for choosing this poet to feature. What craft and hawklike vision!