In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary poetry. This collection of her prose writings, accompanied by evocative family photographs, discloses the world that she transformed into poetry.

A collection of Lynette Roberts's prose, this assortment relates her life in rural south Wales during World War II, offering insight into a fascinating period of history and showcasing how ordinary people's lives were impacted by international events. This assemblage includes "Village Dialect"--Roberts's highly original account of the genesis of poetic language--as well as her notes on her friends and contemporaries Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot and her correspondence with Robert Graves, for whom she helped research "The White Goddess."