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Dart: Alice Oswald

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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.

Tags:

Categorised as:

Poetry

Sub-categories:

Poetry Collections

Places:

Devon

Genres & Themes:

Community; Environment; Landscape

Awards & Prizes:

T.S. Eliot Prize - Winner