Book description
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Dart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read this book and immediately recommended it to my book club because I loved it so much. I’ve not read a collection quite like it. It is a long poem about the River Dart in Devon, but the word ‘about’ doesn’t quite capture it.
What’s remarkable is that the river seems to have found its own language–a sinuous, twisting, turning, stopping, starting rhythm of words. The poem flows forward, shifting and shape-shifting as it goes and making new worlds of language along the way.
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