Dart
Author | : Alice Oswald |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2010-06-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571259427 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571259421 |
Rating | : 4/5 (421 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dart written by Alice Oswald and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.