Book description
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.
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.
