Alice Oswald
Autore di Memorial
Sull'Autore
Alice Oswald has won the Eric Gregory Award, the Arts Foundation Award for Poetry, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and the T. S. Eliot Prize. She lives in Devon, England.
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo: © Kate Mount http://www.katemountphotography.co.uk/
Opere di Alice Oswald
Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentenary Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed Upon… (2002) — A cura di — 4 copie
A Short Story of Falling 3 copie
Tree Ghosts 1 copia
Opere correlate
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Oswald, Alice
- Data di nascita
- 1966
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Devon, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Oxford University (New College)
- Attività lavorative
- gardener
poet - Relazioni
- Oswald, Peter (husband)
Beatty, Laura (sister) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Ted Hughes Award (2010)
Utenti
Recensioni
I did not expect to be so moved.
Quite a horrific but beautiful account of war.
Quite a horrific but beautiful account of war.
Gorgeously descriptive.
The play/poem structure is really fun.
The play/poem structure is really fun.
Like leaves who could write a history of leaves
The wind blows their ghosts to the ground
And the spring breathes new leaf into the woods
Thousands of names thousands of leaves
When you remember them remember this
Dead bodies are their lineage
Which matter no more than the leaves
The wind blows their ghosts to the ground
And the spring breathes new leaf into the woods
Thousands of names thousands of leaves
When you remember them remember this
Dead bodies are their lineage
Which matter no more than the leaves
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 1,138
- Popolarità
- #22,561
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 58
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 4
Stands by a grave and says nothing
Review of the W.W. Norton Company paperback edition (2013) of the original Faber & Faber hardcover (2011)
This is an extraordinarily beautiful meditation and elegy on death, loss and the fleeting nature of life. Although ostensibly a "version" of Homer's Iliad, it is Alice Oswald's poetic similes that follow each listing of a death or deaths from the Greek epic which are the affecting and haunting chorus to each passing.
Oswald starts off by listing all 200 names of the dead from The Iliad, from Protesilaus through to Hector. She then begins to intone each again, with some excerpts relating to their deaths in the epic and then following them with her similes, each of those latter repeated twice. In my ignorance I thought the repeats were a typo at first, and then realized the beauty of repeating them and letting their imagery sink in.
Reading this during the current pandemic and the extent of the worldwide loss of life due to that disease made me think of the mythological Trojan War as a metaphor for any sort of long term unjust forms of death and I became more focused on Oswald's choruses than the Iliad sections.
The poem is followed by an excellent Afterword by Eaven Boland in this 2013 Norton paperback edition.
I've been a long term fan of Christopher Logue's Homer in War Music (2015), but I have to confess that Alice Oswald has become my new fave Iliad adaptation.
My thanks to Liisa & family for this kind gift.… (altro)