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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), and Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She served as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 2019 to 2023.

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), and Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She served as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 2019 to 2023.

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...