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.
Read by the author.
| ISBN: | 9780571243921 |
| Publication date: | 5th March 2009 |
| Author: | Alice Oswald |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | CD-Audio |
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
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