Dart [Signed]

Alice Oswald

ISBN 10: 057121410X / ISBN 13: 9780571214105

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2002

About this Item

48pp. 1st edition, 4th Impression. Single poem based on conversations by Alice Oswald with people who live and work along the River Dart in Devon. This is her second book of poetry. Undated gift inscription by the author on ffep to Patricia & William (Oxley). Their neat ownership stamp also on this page. The Oxley's organised a poetry festival in Torbay, Devon from 2001 to 2019. Turquoise wrap-around covers with green and blue lettering on face and green title on spine. Appears unread. Seller Inventory # 014819

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dart [Signed]

Publisher: Faber & Faber, London

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.