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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...
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).
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.
Nov 15, 2023 · Alice Oswald. by Jesse Nathan. What is it about Alice Oswald’s poetry that is so immensely compelling? It could be the tautness, the hard brightness, of the language, the sense that every word in every line is earned, desperately necessary, a matter of urgency.
