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Alice Oswald

May 2021

  • Fiona Shaw

    On my radar
    On my radar: Fiona Shaw’s cultural highlights

    The award-winning actor on the genius of Fritz Lang, the human cost of Homer’s Iliad and where to find the best live music in Ireland

December 2019

  • Guardian Weekend | Generation Gap Poet Alice Oswald pictured in Bristol. 19th September 2019 Pic Gareth Iwan Jones

    How to be hopeful
    How to be hopeful: Alice Oswald’s poem Mist

    The poet on the startling wonders of the natural world

October 2019

  • Picture By Jim Wileman - Poet Alice Oswald, pictured at her home near Totnes, South Devon.

    Nobody by Alice Oswald review – given up to the fateful waves

    Alice Oswald is at the height of her powers in this single poem inspired by stories from The Odyssey

September 2019

  • The poet Alice Oswald

    Radical verse versus the poetic traditions

    Letters: Poetry that breaks the rules is not the only poetry worth reading, argues Richard Meier
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  • Mosaic scene from Homer’s Odyssey, Ulysses meeting with sirens in The Bardo museum in Tunis, capital of Tunisia.<br>A1WWAY Mosaic scene from Homer’s Odyssey, Ulysses meeting with sirens in The Bardo museum in Tunis, capital of Tunisia.

    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    Nobody by Alice Oswald; If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton; In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail; and I May Be Stupid But I’m Not That Stupid by Selima Hill

July 2019

  • Tracy K Smith<br>FILE - In this April 16, 2012 file photo, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith poses outside her apartment in New York. Smith is the country's new poet laureate. On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced Smith's appointment to a one-year term. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Tracy K Smith on the place of poetry in modern America – books podcast

    The outgoing US poet laureate talks about her career, and we chat about the work of Alice Oswald, the new Oxford professor of poetry

June 2019

  • Alice Oswald.

    Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin

    Oswald will be the first woman to serve in the role, established three centuries ago

May 2019

  • Picture By Jim Wileman - Poet Alice Oswald, pictured at her home near Totnes, South Devon.

    Oxford poetry professor contest kicks off amid growing controversy

  • Imtiaz Dharker is a Pakistan-born British poet, artist and documentary filmmaker. She has won the Queen’s Gold Medal for her English poetry. Dharker was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan to Pakistani parents.

    Hunt for next poet laureate still on as Imtiaz Dharker says no to job

April 2019

  • Ladybird in flight

    Into thin air: Carol Ann Duffy presents poems about our vanishing insect world

    To mark the end of her poet laureateship, Duffy introduces new poems celebrating the beauty and variety of an insect world facing extinction by Alice Oswald, Daljit Nagra, Paul Muldoon and more

June 2017

  • Alice Oswald at her home near Totnes, south Devon.

    Alice Oswald takes £37,000 Griffin prize with 'breathtaking' poetry

    Falling Awake, already a much acclaimed collection, was cheered by 1,000-strong crowd at readings connected with the Canadian award

January 2017

  • ‘It knocks your socks off every time, even in your 60s’ … Sebastian Barry, winner of the novel category and favourite for the Costa book of the year.

    Costa book awards deliver for baby boomer winners

    Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Alice Oswald and first novelist Francis Spufford all take £5,000 category prizes and go into contention for overall award

December 2016

  • Meeting point between art and everyday existence … William Wordsworth’s former home, Dove Cottage, in Grasmere, Cumbria.

    Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums – review

    From John Lanchester at the Prado to Ann Wroe at Dove Cottage, these accounts of favourite museums are a joy to read

August 2016

  • JM Coetzee

    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: The Schooldays of Jesus; Falling Awake; The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History

  • Downham Hill

    Falling Awake by Alice Oswald review – a dazzling celebration of nature

July 2016

  • Alice Oswald

    Falling Awake by Alice Oswald review – encounters with nature that defy language

  • Alice Oswald

    A life in ...
    Alice Oswald: ‘I like the way that the death of one thing is the beginning of something else’

April 2016

  • Play School’s Humpty (pictured with Jemima) was inspired – like James Joyce – by the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: nursery rhymes

    The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn

November 2015

  • Climete change poems : Climate change poems (from left to right): Jeremy Irons, Tamsin Greig , Gabriel Byrne, Kelly Macdonald and James Franco

    Keep it in the ground: a poem a day
    'Our melting, shifting, liquid world': celebrities read poems on climate change

    Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 21 poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Includes two bonus poems from Byrne and Franco
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