Dart - SIGNED FIRST IMPRESSION

Oswald, Alice

ISBN 10: 057121410X / ISBN 13: 9780571214105

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2002

Fine first printing in fine french flaps. A softback original. An as-new copy with no evidence of having been used. No creases or marks to wrappers. Minimal but even age toning to the text block. A crisp copy of a book which is approaching 20 years old. Signed by the author to the title page, without inscription. A very scarce signed first printing of a major publication. Seller Inventory # 009887

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her third collection, Woods etc, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize. A Sleepwalk on the Severn appeared in 2009, as did Weeds and Wild Flowers, her collaboration with the artist Jessica Greenman.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dart - SIGNED FIRST IMPRESSION
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Original Wraps
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition