Spacecraft Voyager 1 New and Selected Poems
by Oswald, AliceFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-10-30
Publisher(s): Graywolf Press
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Summary
Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today.Spacecraft Voyager 1collects poetry from across her career Â--new poems, selections from her first and more recent books, and the entirety of her masterwork to date,Dart, winner of the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize. Oswald's speakerÂ--always curious, often whimsical, sometimes brashÂ--becomes the river itself, as she gives voice to the natural world and the denizens along the river Dart in Devonshire, in their unique dialects and occupations. For the first time,Spacecraft Voyager 1introduces American readers to an essential new poet..
Author Biography
Alice Oswald has published three books of poetry and received the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald, and their three children in Devon, England.
Table of Contents
| Pruning in Frost | p. 5 |
| A Greyhound in the Evening after a Long Day of Rain | p. 6 |
| The Glass House | p. 8 |
| My Neighbour, Mrs Kersey | p. 9 |
| Poem | p. 10 |
| Since Love Is Round | p. 11 |
| April | p. 12 |
| Bike Ride on a Roman Road | p. 13 |
| Sea Sonnet | p. 14 |
| Sea Sonnet | p. 15 |
| Sea Sonnet | p. 16 |
| Estuary Sonnet | p. 17 |
| Ballad of a Shadow | p. 18 |
| Wedding | p. 19 |
| If Stones Could Fly | p. 20 |
| The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile | p. 21 |
| Mountains | p. 22 |
| The Melon Grower | p. 23 |
| Prayer | p. 25 |
| The Three Wise Men of Gotham Who Set Out to Catch the Moon in a Net | p. 27 |
| Dart | p. 41 |
| Sea Poem | p. 97 |
| Seabird's Blessing | p. 98 |
| Owl | p. 99 |
| Woods etc | p. 100 |
| Wood Not Yet Out | p. 101 |
| Sisyphus | p. 102 |
| Song of a Stone | p. 105 |
| Autobiography of a Stone | p. 107 |
| Walking Past a Rose This June Morning | p. 108 |
| Head of a Dandelion | p. 109 |
| Field | p. 110 |
| Solomon Grundy | p. 111 |
| Poem for Carrying a Baby Out of Hospital | p. 112 |
| Five Fables of a Length of Flesh | p. 113 |
| Hymn to Iris | p. 118 |
| River | p. 119 |
| Tree Ghosts | p. 120 |
| Moon Hymn | p. 124 |
| The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards | p. 125 |
| Various Portents | p. 128 |
| Excursion to the Planet Mercury | p. 130 |
| Sonnet | p. 132 |
| Dunt | p. 135 |
| In a tidal valley | p. 139 |
| Mud | p. 140 |
| Fragment of an Unfinished Morning | p. 141 |
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Excerpts
Spacecraft Voyager 1 has boldly gone into Deep Silence carrying a gold-plated disc inscribed
with whale-song
—from “Sonnet”
with whale-song
—from “Sonnet”
Excerpted from Spacecraft Voyager 1: New and Selected Poems by Alice Oswald
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