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| The Thing In The Gap-Stone Stile (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald’s first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing. Influenced by the rhythms of Hopkins, Oswald’s poems speak passionately of nature and love. They have a sense of mystery, and try to express the intangible in marvellously vivid language. A long poem, The Wise Men of Gotham, which makes up the second part of the book is, by contrast, a version of the folk-legend about the three men who went to sea in a boat to try and catch the moon in a net.
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First page first lines:
From Pruning In Frost - ‘Last night, without a sound,/a ghost of a world lay down on a world,/trees like dream-wrecks/corralled with increments of frost./Found crevices/and wound and wound/the clock-spring cobwebs’...
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Alice Oswald
After reading classics at Oxford University, Alice Oswald trained at Wisley as a gardener, and has since worked at Tapley Park, Devon, and the Chelsea Physic Garden. She is married to the translator and playwright Peter Oswald. The most important influences for her include Homer (who made her a gardener), Dante, and Ovid, and the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Dart, her second volume of poetry, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her third collection, Woods etc., won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2006.
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Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
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Reviews:
‘Oswald emerges as an inheritor of some of Britain’s greatest poetic voices, an heir to Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill.’ - The Times.
‘Alice Oswald is making a new kind of poetry . . . she is in the front rank of writers, in poetry and prose, who are not content to work only with what exists already.’ - Jeanette Winterston.
‘The wonderful Alice Oswald who, by rights, should be winning every prize going this year.’ - Carol Ann Duffy.
Note: Front cover differs from one shown.
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| Book code: BTD061 |
| Price: GBP £ 3.00 |
| USD $ 5.00 |
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