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.
Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald is a British poet known for her acclaimed work "Dart." Her poetic style is characterized by vivid imagery and lyrical language that captures the beauty and power of the natural world. Oswald's contributions to literature include redefining the boundaries of contemporary poetry and exploring themes of nature, mythology, and memory.
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