Dart by Alice Oswald paperback Looking across history and around

Looking across history and around the globe

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covering everything from his Boyhood in Swindon

Visceral and elegant

he was forced to practise two hours a day and Earl would tape motivational messages to his bedroom wall: “I believe in me”

Dart by Alice Oswald paperback Looking across history and aroundOver 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 historic and