Rhapsody
A Manifesto
$46.80
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
A daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poets
Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form - before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice - and finds it still speaking all around us.
What begins as an attempt to ‘interview’ Homer becomes a wide-ranging exploration of an anonymous tradition that exists beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners, of nightingales, gra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787332218 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787332217 |
| Author: | Alice Oswald |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 138mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and has published several poetry collections, including Dart - a long poem about a river - and Memorial, a version of Homer’s Iliad. She has been awarded the T.S Eliot Prize, Forward Poetry Prize, Griffin Poetry Prize and Costa Poetry Award. She was Oxford professor of Poetry between 2019 and 2024.
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