Nobody by Alice Oswald
A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.
"A radical rereading and re-voicing of The Odyssey, an oceanic nameless lyric with undercurrents from The Oresteia and Philoctetes…Nobody is a sorrowing, timeless, up-to-the-minute, majestic, goose-fleshed meditation on what it is to be mortal" -- Rosanna Warren, author of So Forth
"Electrifying…[Nobody] is mythical and realistic, ancient and modern…Oswald is at the top of her form here." -- Kate Kellaway - Observer
"A paean to water, to the fluidity of language and the porousness between beings and stories…[T]he effects of reading Nobody linger in and around the mind long after the experience has passed." -- Maria Crawford - Financial Times
"The rush of unexpected language is thrilling…It is a wonderfully skillful tarantella of syllables and images…Nobody is Oswald’s most formally freehand work, a fragmentary gathering of murmurings searching for the excitement of new meaning." -- Jeremy Noel-Todd - Sunday Times
"[Oswald is] a revolutionary, an eco-poet whose ideas are alive with sensory experience. These seeming paradoxes create exceptional resonance, and the sense of an urgency that transcends poetry itself…Nobody is a kind of verse novel which refuses even the conventions of storytelling." -- Fiona Sampson - Guardian
"Electrifying…[Nobody] is mythical and realistic, ancient and modern…Oswald is at the top of her form here." -- Kate Kellaway - Observer
"A paean to water, to the fluidity of language and the porousness between beings and stories…[T]he effects of reading Nobody linger in and around the mind long after the experience has passed." -- Maria Crawford - Financial Times
"The rush of unexpected language is thrilling…It is a wonderfully skillful tarantella of syllables and images…Nobody is Oswald’s most formally freehand work, a fragmentary gathering of murmurings searching for the excitement of new meaning." -- Jeremy Noel-Todd - Sunday Times
"[Oswald is] a revolutionary, an eco-poet whose ideas are alive with sensory experience. These seeming paradoxes create exceptional resonance, and the sense of an urgency that transcends poetry itself…Nobody is a kind of verse novel which refuses even the conventions of storytelling." -- Fiona Sampson - Guardian
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), and Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She served as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 2019 to 2023.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781324005605 |
| ISBN 10 | 1324005602 |
| Title | Nobody |
| Author | Alice Oswald |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2020-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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