Rosemary Tonks Quotes

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Andrew Motion, published in The Times, 30 October, 2004

Rosemary Tonks

Thinking we were safe-insanity!
We went in to make love. All the same
Idiots to trust the little hotel bedroom.
Then in the gloom...
... And who does not know that pair of shutters
With all the awkward hook on them
All screeching whispers?

Rosemary Tonks

Disappeared! What happened? Because I admire her poems, I've been trying to find out for years … according to some people she became a Sufi. Others say she entered a closed order. Others imagine her footloose and anonymous, travelling the wide world. In any event, no trace of her seems to survive - apart from the writing she left behind.

Rosemary Tonks