Bonnie G Roberts's Reviews
Reviews of Bonnie’s Work
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Jun.19.2011
Published by enjoy! books page E10 The Huntsville Times
"I've long wanted to attend the festival, but it's never fit into my schedule This year, I intend to make it a priority.
My main reason is Bonnie Roberts. A nationally renowned...
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Mar.26.1989
Published by The Huntsville Times, Books, A Baker's Dozen: Contemporary Women Poets of Alabama. Edited by Jerri B
"With an unimpressive white jacket binding its contents and a hand-written press release announcing its arrival, A Baker's Dozen is one of those books even a confirmed poetry...
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Jul.10.1990
Published by A Huntsville Literary Association contest; review of, essay about, an Al literary person; also sent
"Appearances are more than deceiving when you meet Bonnie Roberts. They're downright misleading. She is an Alabama poet who moves with the grace of a southern belle. Her voice...
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Mar.07.1999
Published by The News-Courier, Athens, AL
"Bonnie Roberts' book of poetry To Hide in the Light (Elk River Review Press, $12) cannot hide at all. It is a startling, wet, fresh symphony of colors and emotions as natural...
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Published by First Draft, The Journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum
"Things known in Roberts's world are as familiar to most Southerners as dirt, a favorite topic of hers, her presentation of the quotidian so immediate and sensual, we are reminded...
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Published by Inspiring Gardeners for 100 Years: Horticulture magazine
From interview:
"I think dirt is the reason I have spent my whole life in the South," offers Huntsville, Alabama poet, Bonnie Roberts, whose poem "Take Me Down That Row One More...
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Published by First Draft: The Journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum
". . . The human voice, as well as the voices of bears, wind, and waves, are at one with an animate universe, and when we are alive in and to the world we inhabit, we enter into a...
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Reviews by Bonnie
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12.Jun.2011
Bonnie G Roberts reviews
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The paradoxical title of Bonnie Roberts' new collection of poems, To Hide in the Light, evokes the ancient story of Eve, who only...
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12.Jun.2011
Bonnie G Roberts reviews
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Akhter Ahsen, Ph.D., author of Manhunt in the Desert, and publisher, Brandon House Publishing, New York, New York, writes to...
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12.Jun.2011
Bonnie G Roberts reviews
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In her introduction of Bonnie Roberts at a 1992 reading in Dublin, poet Paula Meehan, of Poetry Ireland and author of The Man Who...
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When I first came across Bonnie Roberts's work . . . I was absolutely, immediately exhilarated with the same kind of exhilaration as when I first opened Neruda, a sense of a whole landscape singing through a person. ”
—Paula Meehan, Irish poet, her comment on the back of Roberts's first collection, To Hide in the Light.
About Bonnie
Both my parents were teachers, who met at the University of AL. My mother eventually taught 2nd-grade reading; my father taught math, history, and political science. To improve his income, he later became a seller of insurance, not something he liked, but...
Connections
Causes Bonnie Roberts Supports
The Southern Poverty Law Center, The National Resource Defense Council, The ACLU, Doctors without Borders, Save Darfur
Bonnie’s Favorite Books
To Kill a Mockingbird; The Poisonwood Bible; The Star Thrower; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Leaves of Grass; Les...