Dart (Faber Members)

This very special Collectors' edition of Alice Oswald's Dart is signed by the author and features a cover panel and endpaper design commissioned from artist Jonathan Gibbs. 'If you never read poetry, make an exception for this.' The Times Over three years, Alice Oswald recorded 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. Each copy of this new edition - with its stunning cover illustration - has been signed by Alice Oswald. The Faber Collectors' Edition of this remarkable poem has been printed, sewn and hand-bound in Yorkshire.