Spacecraft Voyager 1 New and Selected Poems

by Oswald, Alice

• ISBN13: 9781555974824
• ISBN10: 1555974821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today.Spacecraft Voyager 1collects poetry from across her career Â--new poems, selections from her first and more recent books, and the entirety of her masterwork to date,Dart, winner of the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize. Oswald's speakerÂ--always curious, often whimsical, sometimes brashÂ--becomes the river itself, as she gives voice to the natural world and the denizens along the river Dart in Devonshire, in their unique dialects and occupations. For the first time,Spacecraft Voyager 1introduces American readers to an essential new poet..

Author Biography

Alice Oswald has published three books of poetry and received the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald, and their three children in Devon, England.

Table of Contents

Pruning in Frost	p. 5
A Greyhound in the Evening after a Long Day of Rain	p. 6
The Glass House	p. 8
My Neighbour, Mrs Kersey	p. 9
Poem	p. 10
Since Love Is Round	p. 11
April	p. 12
Bike Ride on a Roman Road	p. 13
Sea Sonnet	p. 14
Sea Sonnet	p. 15
Sea Sonnet	p. 16
Estuary Sonnet	p. 17
Ballad of a Shadow	p. 18
Wedding	p. 19
If Stones Could Fly	p. 20
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile	p. 21
Mountains	p. 22
The Melon Grower	p. 23
Prayer	p. 25
The Three Wise Men of Gotham Who Set Out to Catch the Moon in a Net	p. 27
Dart	p. 41
Sea Poem	p. 97
Seabird's Blessing	p. 98
Owl	p. 99
Woods etc	p. 100
Wood Not Yet Out	p. 101
Sisyphus	p. 102
Song of a Stone	p. 105
Autobiography of a Stone	p. 107
Walking Past a Rose This June Morning	p. 108
Head of a Dandelion	p. 109
Field	p. 110
Solomon Grundy	p. 111
Poem for Carrying a Baby Out of Hospital	p. 112
Five Fables of a Length of Flesh	p. 113
Hymn to Iris	p. 118
River	p. 119
Tree Ghosts	p. 120
Moon Hymn	p. 124
The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards	p. 125
Various Portents	p. 128
Excursion to the Planet Mercury	p. 130
Sonnet	p. 132
Dunt	p. 135
In a tidal valley	p. 139
Mud	p. 140
Fragment of an Unfinished Morning	p. 141
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Excerpts

Spacecraft Voyager 1 has boldly gone into Deep Silence carrying a gold-plated disc inscribed
      with whale-song
—from “Sonnet”

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