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Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poet-in-Residence, succeeding Daljit Nagra.
Poet Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Revered as a major poet in her native England, her honors include prestigious awards like the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Oswald is the author of 11 collections of poetry.
In its vivid, hypnotic and often startlingly imaginative qualities, the poetry of Alice Oswald (b. 1966) confirms a unique sensibility at work. From her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize, her unusual, almost visionary style ...
Aug 17, 2020 · Alice Oswald’s Homeric Mood. Her poetry conjures the worlds of the Iliad and the Odyssey with startling, sometimes vexing, beauty. By Judith Thurman. August 17, 2020. Oswald, who defines her...
Poet Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Revered as a major poet in her native England, her honors include prestigious awards like the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Alice Oswald is a British poet who lives in Devon with her family. Newspaper profiles will inevitably mention the fact that after studying classics at Oxford she worked as a gardener. In fairness, her time working as a gardener was hugely important to her poetic development.
Poet Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Revered as a major poet in her native England, her honors include prestigious awards like the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Oswald is best known for Dart (2002), her book-length poem that won the T.S. Eliot prize. This is a complex and richly polyphonic work, probably best appreciated after a look at her earlier publications, which began with The Thing in the Gap Stone Wall (1996).
Alice Oswald was the inaugural winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry in 2009 for her collection Weeds and Wildflowers. She lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her book-length poem Dart, originally commissioned by The Poetry Society, won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2002.
Oct 9, 2011 · Alice Oswald: haunted by Homer. Sarah Crown. Alice Oswald thinks The Iliad has been turned into a public school poem that glamorises war. So she has rewritten it – with the footsoldiers as...
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