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    Dart

    Written by Alice Oswald

    Narrated by Alice Oswald

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    Over the course of three years Alice Oswald recorded 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 in Dart a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateMay 26, 2016
    ISBN9780571243938
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    Dart
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    Alice Oswald

    Alice Oswald has published three books of poetry and received the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald, and their three children in Devon, England.

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    • 3/5
      I don't often read or listen to poetry but I was drawn to this one as it is a portrait of Devon, a part of the country that fascinates me and where some of my partner's family live.

      Alice Oswald narrates the audiobook herself which really helps with the flow of the poems. Each poem is from the point of view of a different Devonian "character", whether it be a person or a feature of the landscape, all of them revolving around the river.

      I really enjoyed this collection but I find it difficult to fully connect to poetry. Having said that, this collection completely evoked the mythical and eerie sense of Devon that brings the magic of the place to life. It is a beautiful part of England but harsh in different weather extremes; Oswald captures this perfectly through her poems and I got a real sense of place through listening.

      Overall, I would recommend this collection. As with many collections, I feel like I would get more out of it upon a reread but on the whole this was a very enjoyable and atmospheric collection.

      3 out of 5 stars!