Dart
By: Alice Oswald.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Dart, River (England) -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
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."--Jacket.