Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. 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 sewage worker and milk worker,a forester,swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices,dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571259335Number of pages: 64Weight: 144 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 4 mmEdition: Main
Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald celebrates nature like no other modern poet. A legacy of her training as a gardener,she has imbued the natural world with a power and resonance across seven collections of poetry,including the immersive melding of prose and poetry Dart,a meditation on the eponymous Devon river written over a period of three years. Her numerous awards include the Forward Poetry Prize and the TS Eliot Prize.
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