The Apple Shed
April
Ballad Of A Shadow
Bike Ride On A Roman Road
Conde Arnaldos
Epitaph
Estuary Sonnet
Gardeners At The Resurrection
The Gardeners In The Shed
The Glass House
A Greyhound In The Evening After A Long Day Of Rain
I Bicycled Past A Ship
If Stones Could Fly
The Melon Grower
The Moon Addresses Her Reflections
Mountains
My Neighbour, Mrs Kersey
O Mrs Kersey, My Hedge Is Your Hedge
Otter Out And In
Owl Village
The Pilchard-curing Song
Poem
Prayer
Pruning In Frost
Sea Sonnet
Sea Sonnet
Sea Sonnet
Sleep
Sonnet
Sonnet
The Thing In The Gap-stone Stile
The Three Wise Men Of Gotham Who Set Out To Catch The Moon
Wedding
When A Stone Was Wrecking His Country
Woman In A Mustard Field
A Wood Coming Into Leaf
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Product Description
Alice Oswald's first book of poems, The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile, recently awarded the Poetry Book Society's Choice award, is more confident and achieved than many first collections. Previously published in Anvil New Poets 2, a selection chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, and winner of the 1994 Eric Gregory Award, Oswald already clearly demonstrates a distinct voice. The poems here are extraordinarily beautiful, intensely musical, strewn with emotion, and full of energy and warmth. Influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Herbert, they speak passionately of nature and love. They have a religious sense of mystery and try to express the intangible in marvelously vivid language. The second part of the book features an entertaining long poem titled The Men of Gotham, a comical folk-legend about the three men who went to sea to try to catch the moon in a net. Taken together, this is a wonderful first collection by an exceptionally talented young poet.
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