Woods Etc
Woods Etc by Alice Oswald is a collection of poems published by Faber & Faber in 2005, featuring 56 pages of lyrical exploration. This book serves as Oswald’s third poetry collection, following her acclaimed work, Dart. The poems present a unique voice that reflects on the natural order and individual life, showcasing a blend of honesty and rhetorical confidence.
Readers will find a dazzling variety of lyrics that encapsulate Oswald’s ruminative style, developed over several years. The collection draws on themes of nature and personal experience, often echoing the oral traditions that have influenced her work. Woods Etc invites readers to engage with its rich imagery and thoughtful reflections, making it a significant addition to contemporary poetry.
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A sensational new collection from the author of Dart. Woods etc. is Alice Oswald’s third book of poems, and follows on from the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem, Dart, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. The poems in her new book compress this uniquely ruminative voice into a dazzlingly various sequence of lyrics about the natural order and the individual life within. Written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity.
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