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Alice Oswald

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January 01, 1966

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Alice Oswald (born 1966) is a British poet who won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.

Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald (also a trained classicist), and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England.

Alice Oswald is the sister of actor Will Keen and writer Laura Beatty.
In 1994, she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), won a Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) in 1996, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997.

Her second collection, Dart (2002), combined verse and prose, which tells the story of the River Dart in D...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 194 ratings · 43 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Dart 4.22 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Woods etc. 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Spacecraft Voyager 1: New and Selected Poems 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Weeds And Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald, Jessica Greenman (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings	My rating:
	The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Sleepwalk On The Severn 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Memorial: A Version of the Iliad by Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland (Afterword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Thomas Wyatt. Edited By Alice Oswald by Thomas Wyatt, Alice Oswald (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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Quotes by Alice Oswald

“Various stars. Various kings.
Various sunsets, signs, cursory insights.
Many minute attentions, many knowledgeable watchers,
Much cold, much overbearing darkness.

Various long midwinter Glooms.
Various Solitary and Terrible Stars.
Many Frosty Nights, many previously Unseen Sky-flowers.
Many people setting out (some of them kings) all clutching at stars.

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Various people coming home (some of them kings). Various headlights.
Two or three children standing or sitting on the low wall.
Various winds, the Sea Wind, the sound-laden Winds of Evening
Blowing the stars toward them, bringing snow.”
― Alice Oswald, Woods etc.

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