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Falling Awake
Alice Oswald
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Description for Falling Awake
Paperback. Written to be read aloud, this book features poems that 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. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
115g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910702437
SKU
V9781910702437
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About Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), and Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize ... Read more
Reviews for Falling Awake
She says that poetry is what happens when language becomes impossible. If you've never read her - get this collection now.
Jeanette Winterson
Guardian, Book of the Year
[A] modern classic.
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Sunday Times, Book of the Year
A miraculous collection.
Kate Kellaway
Observer, Book of ... Read more
Jeanette Winterson
Guardian, Book of the Year
[A] modern classic.
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Sunday Times, Book of the Year
A miraculous collection.
Kate Kellaway
Observer, Book of ... Read more