5x15 Special: Alice Oswald on the Origins of Poetry
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Award-winning poet Alice Oswald explores poetry its original, wildest form – and finds new riches in the history of the oral tradition.
Alice Oswald
on the vitality of the oral tradition
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)