Dart - Alice Oswald

Category: Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: River Dart

Written by Alice Oswald
Read by Alice Oswald
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Over the course of three years, Alice Oswald recorded 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 in Dart 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.

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
Release date: 05-12-16