Dart Asiya Wadud

Dart Asiya WadudAlice Oswald 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 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

in this book’s moratorium we can find time to remember what we never loved enough

Building with the narrative quality of a novel

in the strangeness of being both ‘warm & distant’

At the same time

to ask ‘what about the self / the poem’s dirty secret

is uitgegroeid tot een van de grootste Nederlandse dichters van de twintigste eeuw

’ – Gboyega Odubanjo

studying inland and coastal freshwater systems on trips to Alaska and Bermuda

Monika Rinck

dat werd bekroond met de Woutertje Pieterse Prijs

Guided by the urge “to/desire/the world/as it is/not as/it was

Saturday night