“very nearly anonymous now having recently turned five thousand with the same wedge of yearning lodged in my chest as ever and getting accustomed to surviving like a bramble very good at growing anywhere you ought to praise me for this trailing bloom”
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Alice Oswald is a renowned British contemporary poet, born in 1966. Her poetry focuses on natural landscapes and delves into the relationship between humans and nature. Oswald's work is characterized by its unique style and concise language, which has won her a wide audience. more
“examining the whole horizonless question of desire”
“this must be the heart this must be my innermost thought this is only a dream”
“she never quite completes her sentence but is always almost”
“severed by light from myself not knowing but almost”
“but it is glittering now in the gaps between things”
“and the hour is quickened by crows”
“and magpies coming straight from a meeting with misfortune”
“rewinding and grieving rewinding and grieving”