Alice Oswald

British poet · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1966 · age 60

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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2013Popescu PrizeAward2010Hawthornden PrizeAward2009Cholmondeley AwardAward2004“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.”In their wordsGet Writing (2004), as quoted in Modern Women Poets (2005) by Deryn Rees-Jones, p. 392Read the whole statement

1994Eric Gregory AwardAward1966Born31 August 1966

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