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Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms and Iliad of Broken Sentences, and six novels, from Opium Fogs to The Halt During the Chase. Tonks wrote for the Observer, The Times, New York Review of Books, Listener, New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.
Her writing captured the pungent, punchy essence of that city in the Swinging Sixties * Paris Review * Nobody writes about angsty women like Tonks * The Millions * The Tonks character is always trapped. As proud as Lucifer, and trapped. She may be on holiday in Italy with friends, or laid up with gout, she can as little escape as a character in a play can escape the footlights and the stage -- Michael Hoffman * Poetry Foundation * Tonks was principled and ambitious about her writing, pushing a continental decadence into the oddly shaped crannies of bleak British humor * New Yorker *
