Description:
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award - Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize
"These lyrics...illustrate poetry's unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world." --Washington Post
Brief description: The author of six previous books of poetry, Alice Oswald has been awarded the Eric Gregory Award, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Griffin Prize. She lives in Devon, England.
Review Quotes: [Oswald] writes a poetry of the natural world saturated with myth. A long poem about the dawn, 'Tithonus, ' may be the most beautiful work I read all year.--Dan Chiasson "The New Yorker"