by Alice Oswald (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0571259332
ISBN 13: 9780571259335
Book Overview: Dart by Alice Oswald is one of six wonderful collections published in celebration of Faber's rich poetry heritage.