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• 読者は、川に沿って人の声が連なっていく構成や、口語と詩の混ざり方を高く評価する。短いながら密度が高く、音の流れに乗せて土地の感触が立ち上がる点が強みとして受け止められている。

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• Dart is a wonderful long poem

  Fascinating concept and fascinating poetry

• A beautiful book for an exquisite poem

  It is so good to get such a well crafted piece of writing into a book form which feels and looks so good. Illustration on the front cover is perfect. I have already enticed some non-poetry readers to explore the work by giving this as a gift.

• it's Alice Oswald

  that's all you need to know; her poetry is incredible.

• Elegant exploration of a river

  I read Dart two years ago and purchased this copy as a gift. Through the voices of people whose lives touch upon a river, Oswald's poem brings a place and community to light in a subtle and generous way. I recommend it highly.

• river song

  Does the music of language enchant you? How about good quality artwork, or sensitive, tasteful presentation? Yes: then this book is for you. Alice Oswald takes fragments of conversations from those who haunt the river, from its tinkling upper reaches, to the shadowy depths of the mature river. The 'song' is made up of a rich variety of individual viewpoints, whether they be walkers, fishermen or poachers, and they gradually build together into a 'patchwork quilt' of the river, whose own song runs as a steady chorus linking all the pieces together. The human actors are only one small part of the play, for all the wildlife actors, from dragonflies and kingfishers to otters and salmon, make their own contribution. Oswald manages to convey a richly visual picture with relatively sparse and unsensational prose, but the song which bubbles so bewitchingly out of these apparently ordinary ingredients reveals her total mastery of the medium. A deserved prize-winner, and a strongly recommended book to improve the quality of your life: simply open the first page, and let the words and illustrations take you on a trip downriver shot-through with magic.

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