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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Books by Alice Oswald

  • Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

    Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland

    Hardback, 2012

    “The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
  • Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

    Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland

    Paperback, 2013

    “The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
  • Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea

    Alice Oswald

    Hardback, 2020

    A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.
  • Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea

    Alice Oswald

    E Book, 2020

    A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.
  • Falling Awake: Poems

    Alice Oswald

    Paperback, 2018

    Winner of the Costa Poetry Award • Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize

    “These lyrics…illustrate poetry’s unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the...