- Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald (born
1966 ) is an Englishpoet .Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright
Peter Oswald (also a trained classicist), and her three children inDevon , in the South ofEngland .In
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 theT. S. Eliot Prize in1997 .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 theT. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.In
2004 , Alice Oswald was named as one of thePoetry Book Society 'sNext Generation poets . Her latest collection, Woods etc., was published in2005 , and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).Works
* 1996: "The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile", Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5
* 2002: "Dart", Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21410-X
* 2002: "Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge" (co-edited withPeter Oswald and Robert Woof),Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, ISBN 1-870787-84-6
* 2005: "The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet" (editor), Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21854-7
* 2005: "Woods etc.". Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21852-0Awards and recognition
* 1996:
Eric Gregory Award
* 1996:Forward Poetry Prize for (Best First Collection), "The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile"
* 1997: shortlisted forT. S. Eliot Prize , for "The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile"
* 2002:T. S. Eliot Prize for "Dart"
* 2005: shortlisted forForward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) for "Woods etc."
* 2005: shortlisted forT. S. Eliot Prize for " Woods etc."
* 2007:Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) for 'Dunt'External links
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authD4F18F621142f1DB24JmT18BD533 Contemporarywriters.com] Alice Oswald - Biography and Analysis of her Works
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/clar08_.html] "London Review of Books Review" of "Woods etc" by Aingeal Clare.
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