Alice Oswald Reads Her Poetry

Alice Oswald is one of the most original and compelling English poets writing today. Her first book, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, her second, Dart (2002) won the T.S. Eliot prize for poetry. Oswald’s other collections include Woods, etc. (2005), winner of a Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weeds and Wild Flowers (2009), illustrated by Jessica Greenman; A Sleepwalk on the Severn (2009); and Memorial (2011), a reworking of elegiac material from Homer’s Iliad that won the 2013 Warwick Prize for writing. She has also edited The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (2006) and A Ted Hughes Bestiary (2015). Her much awaited new collection Falling Awake is published on 7^th July.

All welcome.  Refreshments provided.

Alice's talk is part of the Poetic Measures conference, being held at the University of York 1-3 July 2016.  For further details see conference website.   

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Writers at York offers a lively programme of public readings and workshops, and aims to celebrate and explore the work of emerging and established contemporary writers.

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