Locating Lynette Roberts

Book excerpt: • Offers a broad yet detailed exploration of Lynette Roberts’s writing, encompassing poetry, prose, and radio broadcasts. It will thus benefit students and scholars by offering the knowledge base and theoretical starting points that they need in order to launch their own investigations. It will benefit teachers by offering a much-needed sourcebook on Roberts’s life and work. • Throws light on the interesting cultural relationship between Wales and Argentina. • Essays arranged in chronological order allow readers to trace the evolution of Roberts’s style in the context of British and Welsh social and cultural history. • It brings together the most recent and original research on Lynette Roberts since 2005. • Flags up Lynette Roberts’s wider relevance to Welsh/British literary history and key developments in literary and cultural studies.