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Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. [1] [2] In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4 's second Poet-in-Residence, succeeding Daljit Nagra . [3]
Poet Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Revered as a major poet in her native England, her honors include prestigious awards like the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Oswald is the author of 11 collections of poetry.
In its vivid, hypnotic and often startlingly imaginative qualities, the poetry of Alice Oswald (b. 1966) confirms a unique sensibility at work.
Alice Oswald lives in Devon. She trained as a classicist and was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in 1994. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), includes poems reflecting her love of gardening and the entertaining long poem, 'The Men of Gotham'.
Aug 17, 2020 · Alice Oswald eerily evokes that state in her eighth and most enigmatic volume of poetry, “Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea” (Norton). The book has had several incarnations.
Alice Oswald is one of the most important poets writing in Britain today, and also one of the most elusive. Her six collections combine the English traditions of nature poetry, history, myth, and lyric; moving genres and forms, she has written a book of poems about flowers, a reshaping of The Iliad , short lyrics, and a book-length poem about ...
Nov 15, 2023 · Alice Oswald. by Jesse Nathan. What is it about Alice Oswald’s poetry that is so immensely compelling? It could be the tautness, the hard brightness, of the language, the sense that every word in every line is earned, desperately necessary, a matter of urgency.
