Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is an English poet. She lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald, and her three children in Devon, in the South of England.

Like her husband she is a trained classicist.

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 is Dart (2002), combined verse and prose, which tells the story of the River Dart in Devon from a variety of perspectives. Jeanette Winterson called it a '… moving, changing poem, as fast-flowing as the river and as deep … a celebration of difference …' (The Times, 27 July 2002). Dart won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.

In 2004, Alice Oswald was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' poets. Her latest collection, Woods etc., was published in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).

Bibliography

The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile Oxford University Press, 1996 ISBN 0-19282-513-5

Dart Faber and Faber, 2002 ISBN 0-57121-410-X

Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge (co-editor with Peter Oswald and Robert Woof) Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, 2002 ISBN 1-87078-784-6

The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (editor) Faber and Faber, 2005 ISBN 0-57121-854-7

Woods etc. Faber and Faber, 2005 ISBN 0-57121-852-0

External links

• Contemporarywriters.com Alice Oswald - Biography and Analysis of her Works
• [1] London Review of Books Review of Woods etc by Aingeal Clare.

See also

• List of authors
• List of poets