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Falling Awake by Alice Oswald (Paperback, 2016)
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By Alice Oswald. The persistent conditions are flux and falling, and the lines are in constant motion- approaching, from daring new angles, our experience of being human, and coalescing into poems of simple, stunning beauty.
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The finest living British poet comes to Cape with her extraordinary new bookWinner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New Statesman / Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Winner of the 2017 Griffin Prize Winner of the 2016 Costa Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Award Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New Statesman / Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Alice Oswald's poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability - a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality - is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama- the held tension that is embodied life, and life's losing struggle with the gravity of nature. Working as before with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as it's spoken as well as how it's thought- fresh, fluid and propulsive, but also fragmentary, repetitive. These are poems that are written to be read aloud. Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book, alive in an English landscape, stuck in the clockwork of their own speech, and the Hours - goddesses of the seasons and the natural apportioning of Time - are the presiding figures. The persistent conditions are flux and falling, and the lines are in constant motion- approaching, from daring new angles, our experience of being human, and coalescing into poems of simple, stunning beauty.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781910702437
eBay Product ID (ePID)225557820
Product Key Features
Book TitleFalling Awake
AuthorAlice Oswald
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year2016
Number of Pages96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight114g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAlice Oswald
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 15 Jan, 2018
Remarkable and uplifting
If you like rich imagery and want language to be beautiful then look no further than Alice Oswald. The collection is utterly uplifting and resonates with the reader hours after the book is returned to its resting place. An original voice, full of zest and wonder - I can't stop revisiting the collection and am so glad for the places it takes me to in my head.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
