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Dart

Dart

by Alice Oswald (Author), Alice Oswald (Author)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published:
ISBN 10: 057121410X
ISBN 13: 9780571214105
Book Overview: Dart by Alice Oswald - winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012 - is a mesmerizing and stunningly original book, a poetic journey along the river Dart, the voice of the river interwoven with the voices of the people who live and work along its course.
 Prizes: Winner of T S Eliot Prize 2002.

Media Reviews
'The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile seductively commands delighted attention. In an age where nature poetry and spirituality are unfashionable, it is always exciting when someone does the job with panache and without being boring.' Guardian
Author Bio
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her third collection, Woods etc, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize. A Sleepwalk on the Severn appeared in 2009, as did Weeds and Wild Flowers, her collaboration with the artist Jessica Greenman.