Rosemary Tonks
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Rosemary Tonks (1932 - ?) was an English poet.
She started publishing juvenilia in 1948]], but her main collections were:
- Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms (1963)
- Opium Fogs (1963)
- Iliad of Broken Sentences (1967)
- Businessmen as Lovers (1969)
- The Halt during the Chase (1972)
Rosemary Tonks was a poet of considerable innovation and originality, until her conversion to fundamentalist Christianity stopped her writing career short in the early 1970s.[1]
She subsequently disappeared.[2][3]
Rosemary Tonks was praised by critics as a cosmopolitan poet of considerable innovation and originality. She has been described as one of the very few modern English poets who has genuinely tried to learn something from modern French poets such as Paul Éluard about symbolism and surrealism. Al Alvarez said of Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms that it showed "an original sensibility in motion". Edward Lucie-Smith said that "the movements of an individual awareness - often rather self-conscious in its singularity - supply the themes of most of her work."
Her work appears in many anthologies, including Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse and British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin).
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- ^ "Being Alive" poetry anthology: "Rosemary Tonks, b. London, 1932: disappeared 1970s".
- ^ The Times (London); Oct 30, 2004 p.8; article by Andrew Motion: "Disappeared! What happened? Because I admire her poems, I've been trying to find out for years... no trace of her seems to survive - apart from the writing she left behind."
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