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Alice Oswald occurs as easily-prized English poet. She accept her married man, a dramatist Peter Oswald, and her trinity toddlers inside Devon, in the South of England. Prefer her hubby she occurs as trained classicist. 1994 she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. Her foremost collection of poetry, A Tool in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996) won a Forward Poetry Prize (Right Number one Collection) around 1996, & was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997. Her 2nd collection is Dart (2002), combined verse & prose, which tells the story of the Flow of any stream Dart around Devon from either a kind of perspectives. Jeanette Winterson known as it the '… moving, changing verse form, when convenient-flowing when the flow of any stream & when deep … a celebration of difference …' (The Times, 27 July 2002). Dart won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Around 2004, Alice Oswald wwhen named as one of a Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' poets. Her latest collection, Forest, was published within 2005, and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Right Poetry Collection of the Month).
Bibliography Dart Faber & Faber, 2002 ISBN: 0-57121-410-X '''Globe Has Non Any Tool to Shew Other Fair: The Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge''' (co-editor using Peter Oswald & Robert Woof) Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, 2002 A Thunder Mutters: 101 Verse form for the Planet (editor) Faber & Faber, 2005 ISBN: 0-57121-854-7 Forest Faber & Faber, 2005 ISBN: 0-57121-852-0
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Water's Soliloquy Review of Dart by Deryn Rees-Jones. River Dart community poem for the Millenium Background to the creation, progress reports and exerts from the work. BBC Get Writing: Poetry for Beginners Advice from the poet illustrated with quotes from her work. Tips, exercises and reading list. Durham21: TS Eliot Prize Winner Student reviews Dart and gives an opportunity to add comments. |
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