The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile
The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile
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Résumé
The first collection of poems from the 1994 recipient of the Eric Gregory Award.
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The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile by Alice Oswald
This is Alice Oswald's first book of poems. More confident and achieved than many first collections, it shows her writing in an already distinct voice. The poems are intensely musical: she recites them from memory. Influenced by the rhythms of Hopkins, they speak passionately of nature and love. They have a religious sense of mystery, and try to express the intangible in marvellously vivid language. A long poem, `The Wise Men of Gotham', which makes up the second part of the book, is, by contrast, a version of the folk-legend about the three men who went to sea in a boat in an attempt to catch the moon in a net. This book is intended for poetry readers.
Oswald, Alice: - Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192825131 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192825135 |
| Titre | The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile |
| Auteur | Alice Oswald |
| Série | Oxford Poets S |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Oxford University Press |
| Année de publication | 1996-03-21 |
| Nombre de pages | 58 |
| Prix | Short-listed for T S Eliot Award for Creative Writing 1996, Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize 1996 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |