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Alice Oswald's first book of poems, The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile is more confident and achieved than many first collections. Previously published in Anvil New Poets 2, a selection chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, and winner of the 1994 Eric Gregory Award, Oswald already clearly demonstrates a distinct voice. The poems here are extraordinarily beautiful: intensely musical, strewn with emotion, and full of energy and warmth. Influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Herbert, they speak passionately of nature and love. They have a religious sense of mystery, and try to express the intangible in marvellously vivid language. The second part of the book features an entertaining long poem titled The Men of Gotham, a comical folk-legend about the three men who went to sea to try to catch the moon in a net. Taken together, this is a wonderful first collection by an exceptionally talented young poet.
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About the Author
About the Author:
Alice Oswald is a professional gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, England.
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The Apple Shed
April
Ballad Of A Shadow
Bike Ride On A Roman Road
Conde Arnaldos
Epitaph
Estuary Sonnet
Gardeners At The Resurrection
The Gardeners In The Shed
The Glass House
A Greyhound In The Evening After A Long Day Of Rain
I Bicycled Past A Ship
If Stones Could Fly
The Melon Grower
The Moon Addresses Her Reflections
Mountains
My Neighbour, Mrs Kersey
O Mrs Kersey, My Hedge Is Your Hedge
Otter Out And In
Owl Village
The Pilchard-curing Song
Poem
Prayer
Pruning In Frost
Sea Sonnet
Sea Sonnet
Sea Sonnet
Sleep
Sonnet
Sonnet
The Thing In The Gap-stone Stile
The Three Wise Men Of Gotham Who Set Out To Catch The Moon
Wedding
When A Stone Was Wrecking His Country
Woman In A Mustard Field
A Wood Coming Into Leaf
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0192825135
- ISBN 13 9780192825131
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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