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The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile Alice Oswald

The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile By Alice Oswald

The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile by Alice Oswald


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Summary

The first collection of poems from the 1994 recipient of the Eric Gregory Award.

The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile Summary

The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile by Alice Oswald

This is Alice Oswald's first book of poems. More confident and achieved than many first collections, it shows her writing in an already distinct voice. The poems are intensely musical: she recites them from memory. Influenced by the rhythms of Hopkins, they speak passionately of nature and love. They have a religious sense of mystery, and try to express the intangible in marvellously vivid language. A long poem, `The Wise Men of Gotham', which makes up the second part of the book, is, by contrast, a version of the folk-legend about the three men who went to sea in a boat in an attempt to catch the moon in a net. This book is intended for poetry readers.

Additional information

GOR003587670
9780192825131
0192825135
The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile by Alice Oswald
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19960321
58
Short-listed for T S Eliot Award for Creative Writing 1996 Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize 1996
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