Woods etc.

Alice Oswald

Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Sea Poem
• Seabird’s Blessing
• Birdsong for Two Voices
• Owl
• Woods etc.
• Leaf
• Wood Not Yet Out
• A Winged Seed
• Sisyphus
• Song of a Stone
• Autobiography of a Stone
• The Stone Skimmer
• Danaides
• Lovesong for Three Children
• Walking past a Rose this June Morning
• Sonnet
• Head of a Dandelion
• For Many Hours there’s been an Old Couple Standing at that Window
• Field
• Ideogram for Green
• Marginalia at the Edge of the Evening
• Solomon Grundy
• Poem for Carrying a Baby out of Hospital
• Story of a Man
• Shamrock Café
• Five Fables of a Length of Flesh
• Three Portraits of a Radio Audience
• Another Westminster Bridge
• Hymn to Iris
• Psalm to Sing in a Canoe
• River
• Tree Ghosts
• A Star Here And A Star There
• Moon Hymn
• The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards
• Various Portents
• Excursion to the Planet Mercury
• Sonnet
• About the Author
• Copyright