Woods Etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oswald, Alice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rivers.

Wood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 2005.

Summary:

Woods etc.is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2002.Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Sea Poem

Seabird's Blessing

Birdsong for Two Voices

Owl

Woods etc.

Leaf

Wood Not Yet Out

A Winged Seed

Sisyphus

Song of a Stone

Autobiography of a Stone

The Stone Skimmer

Danaides

Lovesong for Three Children

Walking past a Rose this June Morning

Sonnet

Head of a Dandelion

For Many Hours there's been an Old Couple Standing at that Window

Field

Ideogram for Green

Marginalia at the Edge of the Evening

Solomon Grundy

Poem for Carrying a Baby out of Hospital

Story of a Man

Shamrock Café

Five Fables of a Length of Flesh

Three Portraits of a Radio Audience

Another Westminster Bridge

Hymn to Iris

Psalm to Sing in a Canoe

River

Tree Ghosts

A Star Here And A Star There

Moon Hymn

The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards

Various Portents

Excursion to the Planet Mercury

About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

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OCLC:

1352968877