Rosemary Tonks does the Spleen de Londres -- from Iiad of Broken Sentences, 1967, on its way to Oxfam Bloomsbury, as it can fetch a high price. (Helen Macdonald, I remember, is an admirer of Tonks and you can see it in their early poems.) #RosemaryTonks #poetry

The Writer Who Burned Her Own Books - The New Yorker https://apple.news/AqUUXG3USQTKFzmLCSzMRPQ #author #RosemaryTonks

The truly wonderful #Bloater by the truly wonderous #RosemaryTonks is an absolute delight. I consumed it in one sitting and wish I had been more rationed in my joy.

"You can always tell the Wagnerians, even on a Verdi evening; both men and women seem to be plastered with blur eyeshadow; they swarm through the porticos with mad eyes, they've lived longer, have more terrible opinions, and are definitely uglier than all the rest pit together"

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