Location: Llanybri Churchyard, Carmarthenshire, Wales
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Evelyn ('Lynette') Roberts was an Argentine born poet who settled in Britain and wrote in English. In 1939 she married the poet and literary editor Keidrych Rhys and they settled in LLanybri, Camarthenshire. In 1944 her collection Poems were published by Faber and Faber. She immortalised her village in her "Poem from Llanybri". This poem was addressed to the poet Alun Lewis.
Roberts was the dedicatee of Robert Graves's The White Goddess in its first edition (1948), having provided much of the Welsh material used by him.
In 1949, she and Keidrych Rhys divorced. In 1951 Faber and Faber published her Gods with stainless ears: a heroic poem. After she became a Jehovah's Witness she ceased to publish.
Later in life Roberts repudiated her work and refused to permit it to be reprinted. An edition of her collected poems was issued by Seren Press after her death but was immediately withdrawn because of legal problems with the Roberts estate; a new Collected Poems finally appeared in 2006.
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