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Dart by Alice Oswald

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Part of Faber Poetry Ser series

Summary

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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Dart by Alice Oswald

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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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.
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ISBN 13 9780571259335
ISBN 10 0571259332
Title Dart
Author Alice Oswald
Series Faber Poetry Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2010-05-06
Number of pages 64
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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