Dart

Oswald, Alice

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Using conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon as a poetic census, Oswald creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are varied and idiomatic – poacher, ferryman, sewage worker.

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Publish Date: 06/05/2010

Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 157 g
Dimensions 205 × 132 × 11 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

48

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K