Alice Oswald
Author

Стихотворения

A SHORT STORY OF FALLING английский

SWAN английский

FLIES английский

FOX английский

BODY английский

A RUSHED ACCOUNT OF THE DEW английский

SHADOW английский

VERTIGO английский

LOOKING DOWN английский

Alice Oswald
Author

About

* 31.08.1966, London, Великобритания
Место жительства: Bristol, Великобритания

Alice Oswald, born 1966 in London, grown up in Reading, Berkshire, went from grammar school to Oxford to read Classics at New College, University of Oxford. After studying the classics she worked as a gardener, a work which was hugely important to her poetic development.
Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), which includes poems reflecting her love of gardening, won a Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection)

Next to her interests in gardening and ecology, her main element is water. Her second collection, Dart (2002), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, tells - combined in verse and prose - the story of the river Dart from a variety of perspectives. In it, she follows the river from its source in Dartmoor, through Devon County to the English Channel at Dartmouth, and condensates polyphonically conversations Oswald has had over the years with people who live on the River, while she herself lived with her husband and three teenage children in a village in a crook of the River Dart.

Her third collection, Woods etc. (2005), won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2006, and in 2009 she was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for A Sleepwalk on the Severn, a night-piece for several voices set on the Severn Estuary.
In 2009 Alice Oswald was the inaugural winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her collection Weeds and Wildflowers.

After five collections centred on nature, Oswald published another book-length poem, the critically acclaimed volume Memorial (2011), which was billed as a translation of Homer’s “Iliad”. Oswald detaches the events and language of the "Iliad" from all narrative contexts and leads them back to their red-hot core: the Homeric comparisons and the heroic deaths reported in the epic. The poem, although it consists exclusively of translated ancient foreign text, is one of the most modern, brutal and beautiful texts of English poetry in recent years.
The title "Memorial" is program too: Oswald has recited the 80-page poem in its entirety from memory several times.

In 2017, she won the Griffin Poetry Prize for her seventh collection of poems, Falling Awake, which also won the Costa Poetry Award.

Alice Oswald is the current and the first female Oxford Professor of Poetry, after being elected in June 2019 for four years, she gave her Inaugural Lecture on 13th November 2019.