Dart

Dart

by Alice Oswald (Author)

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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More Information

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.

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 most recent collection, Woods etc, is a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize.