A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Paperback)

Alice Oswald (author)

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Paperback 48 Pages / Published: 02/04/2009

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'This is not a play. This is a poem in several registers, set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise, which happens five times in five different forms: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various characters, some living, some dead, all based on real people from the Severn catchment, talk towards the moment of moonrise and are changed by it. The poem, which was written for the 2009 festival of the Severn, aims to record what happens when the moon moves over us - its effect on water and its effect on voices.' Alice Oswald A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a poem for several voices, set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise, which happens five times in five different forms: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various characters, some living, some dead - all based on real people from the Severn catchment - talk towards the moment of moonrise and are changed by it. Commissioned for the 2009 festival of the Severn, Alice Oswald's breathtakingly original new work aims to record what happens when the moon moves over the sublunary world: its effect on water and its effect on language.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571247561
Number of pages: 48
Weight: 65 g
Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 5 mm
Edition: Main

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald celebrates nature like no other modern poet. A legacy of her training as a gardener, she has imbued the natural world with a power and resonance across seven collections of poetry, including the immersive melding of prose and poetry Dart, a meditation on the eponymous Devon river written over a period of three years. Her numerous awards include the Forward Poetry Prize and the TS Eliot Prize.

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