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Weeds and Wild Flowers

Alice Oswald
Illustrated by Jessica Greenman

Weeds and Wild Flowers is the new collection from T. S. Eliot prize-winning poet Alice Oswald – beautifully illustrated throughout with etchings by Jessica Greenman.

10 in stock

£16.99
Format
Hardback
ISBN
9780571237494
Date Published
02.04.2009
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Summary

Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying world. Stunningly visualised and skilfully animated, this imaginative collaboration beckons us toward a landscape of botanical characters, and invites us to see ourselves among them.

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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…

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