A book which does the most Alice Oswald thing possible: it begins with an attempt to 'interview' Homer. That rather sets the tone for this expansive defence of poesy.
A superb anthology of poems and prose based around the isles of Britain and Ireland, derived from the literary magazine Archipelago. Contributions from luminaries such as Heaney, Oswald, Lo... read more
This volume - the author tells us in the introduction - is a 'translation of The Iliad 's atmosphere, not its story...' You don't have to be a classics scholar or even to have read the origi... read more
From the one-time winner of both the T.S. Eliot and the Ted Hughes prizes, new poems (designed to be read aloud) engaging with the English landscape (a US hardback will be published in Septe... read more