Alice Oswald
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Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Alice Oswald and first novelist Francis Spufford all take £5,000 category prizes and go into contention for overall award
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From John Lanchester at the Prado to Ann Wroe at Dove Cottage, these accounts of favourite museums are a joy to read
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The poet’s seventh collection is a revelation – everything is on her radar
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The prizewinning poet on myths, gardening and why her work is getting darker
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The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn
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Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 21 poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Includes two bonus poems from Byrne and Franco
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Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho on Alice Oswald’s distillation of The Iliad, Rachel Cusk’s foray into Greek drama and jewellery that manages your social media
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Andrew Motion chooses his favourite poems read aloud by those who write them
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Judges praise 'imaginative and intellectual ambition' of Memorial, British poet's reworking of Homer's The Iliad
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Man Booker prize judge experiences life on the list as his travelogue The Old Ways vies with poetry and fiction for £25,000 award
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Alice Oswald rounds off the first week in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem with a reading of a nursery rhyme, There Was a Man of Double Deed
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'As a child, I wrote in a little notebook I hid in a bush. It was 20 years before I went public'
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Poet Alice Oswald takes Madeleine Bunting on her favourite walk through the Devonshire countryside to discuss the colonization of landscape, the limitations of pastoral language and the influence of oral poetry on her work
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Smith to give sneak preview of new novel NW as glittering cast list including Irvine Welsh, Will Self and Pat Barker announced
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Charlotte Higgins: Half a century after its first showing, Michael Tippett's libretto based on the Iliad is a fitting work for today
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As the British Library exhibition Writing Britain opens, curators Jamie Andrews and Tanya Kirk guide us through the imaginative territories writers have carved out from these British Isles
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This year the Books podcast has travelled from Paris to Edinburgh and from Krakow to Kolkata. Come with us as we look back at the highlights of a year's literary podcasting
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The debate Should the arts be more selective about sponsors?
William Skidelsky and Geoff DyerObserver books editor William Skidelsky and novelist Geoff Dyer debate the withdrawal of two poets from a prize shortlist last week in protest at its hedge fund sponsor -
John Kinsella joins Alice Oswald in pulling out of shortlist to oppose award's funding by investment firm Aurum
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The poet, shortlisted for much-praised collection Memorial, objects to investment company's focus on hedge funds
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Charlotte Higgins: Three treatments of the Greek war epic reviewed, including a translation by Stephen Mitchell and an Alice Oswald reworking
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Carol Ann Duffy pitted against Sean O'Brien, Alice Oswald and John Burnside for 'prize most poets want to win'
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Alice Oswald thinks The Iliad has been turned into a public school poem that glamorises war. So she has rewritten it – with the footsoldiers as heroes. The poet explains herself to Sarah Crown
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The lives of 200 soldiers are brilliantly remembered in this majestic poetic reworking of Homer's Iliad, writes Kate Kellaway
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Carol Ann Duffy introduces sparkling new poems for carols, from, among others, Fleur Adcock, John Agard, Gillian Clarke, Maura Dooley, Ian Duhig, Ruth Fainlight, James Harpur, Frieda Hughes, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Grace Nichols, Sean O'Brien, Alice Oswald, Brian Patten, Michael Symmons Roberts and Kit Wright
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by Alice Oswald, winner of the inaugural Ted Hughes prize
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New prize sponsored by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy goes to 'unsettling and unsettled' collection Weeds and Wild Flowers
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To support the launch of the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions, the Review asked some of our greatest poets to produce new work in response to the crisis
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Review round up: Poetry by Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald breathes life into rivers and hedgerow plants alike, says Olivia Laing
Alice Oswald takes £37,000 Griffin prize with 'breathtaking' poetry