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Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

A Version of Homer's Iliad

by Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland ...

“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New YorkerIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of ... Read more

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“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New YorkerIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of
... Read more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary

Poems

by Ted Hughes, Alice Oswald ...

"Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world." —Seamus HeaneyOriginally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions—between them and us—but Ted Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from ... Read more

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"Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world." —Seamus HeaneyOriginally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions—between them and us—but Ted Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from
... Read more
Archipelago

A Reader

by Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Moya Cannon, Mark Cocker, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, John Eifion Jones, John Elder, Rose Ferraby, Barbara Greg, Ivor Gurney, Alexandra Harris, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Sally Huband, Roger Hutchinson, Mick Imlah, Kathleen Jamie, John Kerrigan, Philip Lancaster, David Lea, Angela Leighton, Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Longley, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Angus Macmillan, Derek Mahon, Gail McNeillie, Sinéad Morrisey, Richard Murphy, Les Murray, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alice Oswald, Bernard O'Donoghue, Jem Poster, Angharad Price, John Purser, Alan Riach, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Richard Sharland, Jos Smith, Mary Wellesley ...

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

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Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative
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Weeds and Wild Flowers

by Alice Oswald ...

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Falling Awake

Poems

by Alice Oswald ...

**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” ... Read more

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**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”
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Nobody

A Hymn to the Sea

by Alice Oswald ...

A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds ... Read more

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A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds
... Read more
Rhapsody

A Manifesto

by Alice Oswald ...

A daring, genre-defying work of nonfiction from one of our greatest poets.Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form—before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice—and finds it still speaking all around us. “I’m looking for the voice of poetry before it knows it is poetry, when it is still improvising itself out of human emergency and memory and the song ... Read more

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A daring, genre-defying work of nonfiction from one of our greatest poets.Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form—before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice—and finds it still speaking all around us. “I’m looking for the voice of poetry before it knows it is poetry, when it is still improvising itself out of human emergency and memory and the song
... Read more
Gigantic Cinema

A Weather Anthology

Edited by Paul Keegan, Alice Oswald ...

A luminous, "deliciously playful" (Rishi Dastidar, Guardian) anthology of poems and prose inspired by the weather.In three hundred varied entries, Gigantic Cinema narrates the weather of a single capricious day, from dawn through rain, volcanic ash, nuclear dust, snow, light, fog, noon, eclipse, hurricane, flood, dusk, night, and back to dawn again. It includes reactions both formal and fleeting ... Read more

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A luminous, "deliciously playful" (Rishi Dastidar, Guardian) anthology of poems and prose inspired by the weather.In three hundred varied entries, Gigantic Cinema narrates the weather of a single capricious day, from dawn through rain, volcanic ash, nuclear dust, snow, light, fog, noon, eclipse, hurricane, flood, dusk, night, and back to dawn again. It includes reactions both formal and fleeting
... Read more
A Sleepwalk on the Severn

by Alice Oswald ...

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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A Sleepwalk On The Severn

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

by Alice Oswald ...

Narrated by Emma Fielding, Ron Cook, Sam Dale ...

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42 min

BBC Radio 4's extraordinary evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary, by award-winning poet Alice Oswald. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 10 March 2011. Set to original music by Roger Goula, the subject of 'A Sleepwalk on the Severn' is moonrise, which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various ... Read more

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BBC Radio 4's extraordinary evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary, by award-winning poet Alice Oswald. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 10 March 2011. Set to original music by Roger Goula, the subject of 'A Sleepwalk on the Severn' is moonrise, which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various
... Read more

The Kingmaking

Book One of the Pendragon's Banner Trilogy

by Helen Hollick ...

"Compelling, convincing, and—ultimately—unforgettable."—Sharon Kay Penman, Bestselling Author of Devil's BloodWho was THE MANWho became THE LEGENDWe know as KING ARTHUR?"You are the Pendragon, rightful Lord of Dumnonia and the Summer Land; Lord of less Britain. By all that is right, you ought be seated where Vortigern sits...You ought to be King."Here lies the truth... ... Read more

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"Compelling, convincing, and—ultimately—unforgettable."—Sharon Kay Penman, Bestselling Author of Devil's BloodWho was THE MANWho became THE LEGENDWe know as KING ARTHUR?"You are the Pendragon, rightful Lord of Dumnonia and the Summer Land; Lord of less Britain. By all that is right, you ought be seated where Vortigern sits...You ought to be King."Here lies the truth...
... Read more
The Greatest Knight

The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion

by Elizabeth Chadwick ...

Series series William Marshal
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"The best writer of medieval fiction currently around."—Historical Novels ReviewRoyal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero.12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to ... Read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"The best writer of medieval fiction currently around."—Historical Novels ReviewRoyal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero.12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to
... Read more

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