Woods etc. [Signed] (Together with Publishers' Press Release)

Alice Oswald

ISBN 10: 0571218520 / ISBN 13: 9780571218523

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2005

About this Item

56pp + vi prelims. 1st edition, 1st impression. Alice Oswald's third collection of poetry. Gift inscription signed by her on first title page. "To Patricia & William, with love". William and Patricia Oxley's neat ownership stamp on front paste down. Green cloth covered boards with fawn end pages. White titling and Faber motif on spine printed upside down. Touch of shelf wear to tip of spine. Light toning to top page edges. Occasional pencil marks by William Oxley (review comments). Clean and tightly bound. Brown unclipped dust jacket with green and white lettering. Sun faded spine. Shelf wear to tip of spine of dust jacket. Tiny dirt mark on rear cover. Laid in is a folded Press Release issued by Faber to announce publication of the book on 19 May 2005.

Seller Inventory # 014820

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Woods etc. [Signed] (Together with Publishers' Press Release)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571218520
• ISBN 13: 9780571218523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third book of poems, and follows on from the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem, Dart, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. The poems in her new book compress this uniquely ruminative voice into a dazzlingly various sequence of lyrics about the natural order and the individual life within. Written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity.

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.