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A Sleepwalk on the Severn

2018-11-13 Poetry
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Release : 2018-11-13
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 985/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Sleepwalk on the Severn by : Alice Oswald

Download or read book A Sleepwalk on the Severn written by Alice Oswald. This book was released on 2018-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early work from the acclaimed poet of Memorial and Falling Awake, appearing for the first time in the United States. A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald’s signature sensitivity to nature, the poem chronicles a night on the Severn Estuary as the moonrise travels through its five stages: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon, and moon reborn.

Weeds and Wild Flowers

2011-04-21 Poetry
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Release : 2011-04-21
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 95X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Weeds and Wild Flowers by : Alice Oswald

Download or read book Weeds and Wild Flowers written by Alice Oswald. This book was released on 2011-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying world. Stunningly visualised and skilfully animated, this imaginative collaboration beckons us toward a landscape of botanical characters, and invites us to see ourselves among them.

The Thunder Mutters

2006 Earth
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Release : 2006
Genre : Earth
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Thunder Mutters by : Alice Oswald

Download or read book The Thunder Mutters written by Alice Oswald. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet casts its net worldwide, historically and geographically, engaging restlessly with the many-centred energies of the natural world.

Falling Awake: Poems

2016-08-22 Poetry
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Release : 2016-08-22
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Falling Awake: Poems by : Alice Oswald

Download or read book Falling Awake: Poems written by Alice Oswald. This book was released on 2016-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Poetry Award • Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize “These lyrics…illustrate poetry’s unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world.” —Washington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, “give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer’s Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial—defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures such as Orpheus and Tithonus alive in an English landscape together with shadows, flies, villagers, dew, crickets—all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower. FROM “VERTIGO” let me shuffle forward and tell you the two minute life of rain starting right now lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze

The Fish Ladder

2015-08-11 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-08-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 015/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Fish Ladder by : Katharine Norbury

Download or read book The Fish Ladder written by Katharine Norbury. This book was released on 2015-08-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out-accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie-with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape grounds the walkers, providing both a constant and a context to their expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to the source of life itself: a life threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the woman who abandoned her all those years ago. Combining travelogue, memoir, exquisite nature writing, and fragments of poems with tales from Celtic mythology, The Fish Ladder has a rare emotional resonance. It is a portrait of motherhood, of a literary marriage, a hymn to the adoptive family, but perhaps most of all it is an exploration of the extraordinary majesty of the natural world. Imbued with a keen and joyful intelligence, this original and life-affirming book is set to become a classic of its genre.

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