The whole challenge of #poetry is to keep language open, so that what we don't yet know can pass through it.

- #AliceOswald

Fox I heard a cough as if a thief was there outside my sleep a sharp intake of air a fox in her fox-fur stepping across the grass in her black gloves barked at my house just so abrupt and odd the way sh...

Fox
#aliceOswald

I heard a cough
as if a thief was there
outside my sleep
a sharp intake of air

a fox in her fox-fur
stepping across
the grass in her black gloves
barked at my house

just so abrupt and odd
the way she went
hungrily asking
[...]

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90861/...

From Earth Prayers: Encounter in Poetry with the Natural World, ed. Carol Ann Duffy.

Tuesday #morningread: #AliceOswald
#ecopoetry

Wow. Alice Oswald is a sublime poet. How have I left discovering her until now??? Memorial goes directly, viscerally, and beautifully into my most treasured poetry books. Have just bought most of her oeuvre on finishing it. #poetry #aliceoswald

“all names, all voices, Slip-Shape, this is Proteus,
whoever that is, the shepherd of the seals,
driving my many selves from cave to cave...”

Dart by Alice Oswald
#JustFinished
#poetry
#Dart #AliceOswald #booksky

"Smuggle it under the threshold of listening into the ark of the soul, where the invisible clear first water, the real Dart writhes like a black fire, smelling of fish and soil and traces a red leaf flood mark and catches a drift of placer gold in her cracks" (Alice Oswald, Dart)

Dart by Alice Oswald
#CurrentlyReading #poetry #Dart #AliceOswald #quotes #booksky

Partial image of book cover showing blue and black wood carving pattern and following text: "come falleth in my push-you where it hurts and let me rough you under, be a laugh and breathe me please in whole inhale come warmeth, I can outcanoevre you into the smallest small where it moils up and masses under the sloosh gates, put your head, it looks a good one, full of kiss and known to those you love, come roll it on my stones, come tongue-in-skull, come drinketh, come sleepeth" (Alice Oswald, Dart)

Dart by Alice Oswald

#CurrentlyReading #Dart #AliceOswald #quotes #booksky #poetry

The cover of Alice Oswald's volume of poetry 'Dart', showing a section of the river Dart with a bed of reeds, drifting up into a blackened sky.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
8/20

#Dart #AliceOswald #PoetrySky #BookSky #BooksThatStayWithYou

Alice Oswald on Ted Hughes, featuring archive readings by Hughes
youtu.be/vop3NOGMExs

'The Thought Fox' (from 02:11)—I adore Hughes' explanation of the three foxes—empiric fox, filmic fox, oneiric fox—coalescing as one. 🦊

#poetry #tedhughes #aliceoswald

'Wedding' by Alice Oswald, 1996. Listen to our latest episode with Beci Carver for a conversation about this poem, swallowtails, ants, love and whimsy 🦋

open.spotify.com/episode/1a5G... #aliceoswald #poetry #research #whimsy #englishliterature