β Scribed by Rosemary Tonks
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The disappearance of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary worldβs most tantalising mysteries Β the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.
After publishing two extraordinary poetry collections Β and six satirical novels Β 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: ΒThey 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 themΒ
The main duty of the poet is to excite Β to send the senses reeling.β
Her poetry Β published in Notes on CafΓ©s...
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