Author(s): Oswald, Alice,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 08/07/2002,
Pagination: 64 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Faber & Faber Poetry,
Published By: Faber & Faber
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571214105

Description:
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea.

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.