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Dart | Alice Oswald
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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.
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i.z.booknook
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Dart is a long-form poem about the river Dart in Devon. It follows the flow of the river from source to the sea whilst also exploring those we find along the river. Oswald uses the voices of real people she interviewed to inform the voices in her poem and the authenticity truly comes across, whilst weaving in mythic and historic cultural voices too. (Cont. in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)

i.z.booknook The language was very intricate, clever and vivid, doing both the beautiful and difficult places and people justice. 8mo
monalyisha What a cover! 8mo
MummaBear Agreed, stunning cover! 8mo
quietlycuriouskate Alice Oswald ❤️ 8mo
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rockpools
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This has been on my tbr forever - Alice Oswald‘s poem of Devon‘s River Dart from source to sea, told through the eyes of those who live, work and enjoy the river. It‘s refreshingly non-flowery/romantic - we hear the voices of poachers & sewage workers alongside chambermaids, wild swimmers & mythical characters. Audio, read by the author, was great.

I seem to be loving books that are super-local-to-me at the mo.

ukroadtrip #devon #192025 #2002

rockpools A teensy tiny gripe, which is bugging me. Pretty sure the cover of this edition is ‘generic river stock photo‘ rather than the Dart, which feels disappointingly lazy. If it is the Dart, they‘ve managed to find the ONLY stretch of it with no hills, which I‘m trying/failing to believe! 2y
rockpools I‘m going to use this as my poetry collection for #midwintersolacegames #naturalitsy - even though technically it‘s a book-length poem rather than a collection! @AllDebooks 2y
TrishB It would seem a bit sad not to be a real picture wouldn‘t it. 2y
AllDebooks @rockpools that's lazy publishing and really annoying. Love your review and obvs I've stacked it 😉 📚📚📚📚 2y
Librarybelle Hooray!! 2y
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Mitch
Dart | Alice Oswald
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Taking a little pause in The Poetry Bookshop on Hay. It‘s a wonderfully calming place with very nice chairs! We‘ve so far made it to 12 bookshops of Hays 27!

BookishMarginalia 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 5y
Mitch @BookishMarginalia I‘m really not a poetry person - but the shop was so welcome I chose a poetry book. Challenge my reading a little! 5y
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quietlycuriouskate
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A song of the river Dart from source to sea, told in its own voice and also in those of fishermen, swimmers, walkers, poachers, ferrymen etc. who live and work on it. Alice Oswald says in her preface "all voices should be read as the river's mutterings".

I was happy letting it carry me along at its own pace and getting caught up in the eddies of the gorgeous writing. Lovely!

#poetrychallenge2018 @Natasha.C.Barnes

merelybookish "Rivers mutterings" -- that's wonderful! 7y
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DennisJacobRosenfeld
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I was given this collection of poems by a dear friend. Outside my window a thick fog is covering everything and poetry is just what I need.