num_pages: 64
description: Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.
language: English
title: Dart
titlecomplete: Dart
genres: Poetry Plays, Environment, Nature, Female Authors, 21st Century, English Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 1172
places: England, Devon, England, River Dart, Devon, England
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
publisher: Faber and Faber