{"product_id":"falling-awake-1","title":"Falling Awake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 Griffin Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eHerald \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Oswald’s poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, \u003ci\u003ephysically\u003c\/i\u003e, engaged in the natural world. Mutability – a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality – is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and life’s losing struggle with the gravity of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking as before with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as it’s spoken as well as how it’s thought: fresh, fluid and propulsive, but also fragmentary, repetitive. These are poems that are written to be read aloud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book, alive in an English landscape, stuck in the clockwork of their own speech, and the Hours – goddesses of the seasons and the natural apportioning of Time – are the presiding figures. The persistent conditions are flux and falling, and the lines are in constant motion: approaching, from daring new angles, our experience of being human, and coalescing into poems of simple, stunning beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316007379326,"sku":"NW9781910702437","price":11.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781910702437.jpg?v=1778658348","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/falling-awake-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}