Dart
- Author Alice Oswald
- Narrator Alice Oswald
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Run Time 0 seconds
- Format x-book®
- Genre Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry, Poetry by individual poets.
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What to expect
Over the course of three years Alice Oswald recorded 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 in Dart 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.
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