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A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronological ...Show more
Aice Oswald - Dart by Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Using conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon as a poetic census, Alice Oswald creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are varied and idiomatic - poacher, ferryman, sewage worker, mill worker, forester and swimmers.
Dart by Alice Oswald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
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 i ...Show more
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award - Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize"These lyrics...illustrate poetry's unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world." --Washington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give s] us the sensation of l ...Show more
Memorial by Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry
Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since - but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away it ...Show more
Memorial by Alice Oswald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its ...Show more
Nobody by Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry
This is a book-length poem - a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey - about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its pre ...Show more
The Princess de Clèves (riverrun Editions) by Nancy Mitford (Translator); Madame de Lafayette; Alice Oswald (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
'Always be civil to the girls. You never know whom they might marry.' Nancy Mitford, from her introduction to The Princess de Clèves When the young, beautiful Mademoiselle de Chartres comes to court, her primary objective is to find herself a husband. Upon her mother's recommendation, she accepts the a ...Show more
The Thunder Mutters : 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald (ed)
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Category: Poetry
Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems, which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, "The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for t ...Show more
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