5x15 Special: Alice Oswald on Poetry, Homer & The Classical World
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Award-winning poet Alice Oswald explores the vital poetry of Homer and the classical world, and why it still speaks to us today.
Alice Oswald
"I've always felt that Homer is a contemporary poet, an avant-garde poet... Homer's poetry is more alive than a lot of what we read as poetry nowadays."
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and has published several poetry collections, including Dart – a long poem about a river – and Memorial, a version of Homer's Iliad. She has been awarded the T.S Eliot Prize, Forward Poetry Prize, Griffin Poetry Prize and Costa Poetry Award. She was Oxford professor of Poetry between 2019 and 2024. (Photo credit: Kate Mount)