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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with two children. Dart is her second collection. Her first collection The Thing in the Gap-Stone Style, won the Forward Prize in 1996.


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Memorial
Alice Oswald
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since - but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves)....
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Dart
Alice Oswald
Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2002
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