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Alice Oswald

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British poet

United KingdomWritersBorn 1966 · age 60
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Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poet-in-Residence, succeeding Daljit Nagra.

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Alice Oswald
said · 2004
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Poems, like dreams, have a visible subject and an invisible one. The invisible one is the one you can't choose, the one that writes itself.

Get Writing (2004), as quoted in Modern Women Poets (2005) by Deryn Rees-Jones, p. 392

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Alice Oswald
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Like a fish in the wind, jumps right out of its knowledge, and lands on the sand.

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Awards 4

2013Popescu Prize
2010Hawthornden Prize
2009Cholmondeley Award
1994Eric Gregory Award

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Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poet-in-Residence, succeeding Daljit Nagra. From 1 October 2019 until 30 September 2023, she was the Oxford Professor of Poetry.

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United Kingdom
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Born 1966 · age 60
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