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#poetrymatters May 4: grass

Fox by Alice Oswald, included in the tagged

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Another stunning collection from my favourite contemporary poet! Her poems give so much to think about and leave me stunned with their beauty. This book focuses on the tension between the gravity acting upon our physical being, in the natural world, and awareness as the alert mind takes flight. Inescapably earthbound, her vision soars yet.

Full review (800 words) on my blog: kathedron.co.uk/reading/oswald-fallingawake/

Finished The Secret Token, took a nap, and now I‘m ready for my next book! Changing things up with some poetry. #24in48 #readathon #poetry

YOU MUST NEVER SLEEP UNDER A MAGNOLIA

...
Alice, you should
never sleep under
so much pure pale
...

#odetosleep #tuneintonovember
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Quite a strange reading month. I read a real mix of stuff, and enjoyed a lot of it while I was reading it, but may have been suffering a bookhangover from January (which was spectacularly awesome).

I need to properly tackle some AtoZ reads from my shelves. With Sky Burial, I remembered how much I love reading around the world, so I'd like to 'get out more' location-wise.

But I'm still reading more than I have in *years*!

#februarywrapup #ro17

Tithonus: 46 minutes in the life of the dawn

A rather lovely long poem to end, which does very much as the title suggests - daybreak, dawn chorus, and 'cascades of earliness'.

I think I'd like my own print copy of this - one to re-read. The Overdrive ebook had a few format and formatting issues which made reading it a little uncomfortable.

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http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/23543

Would now be a good time to admit? There's a hollow hedge at work, and, looking for somewhere quiet to sit at lunchtimes, I often wonder...

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I think I'm going to need to read these a few times, but there's something about the feel of them I really like. This is from a poem called 'A rushed account of the dew'.
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A Short Story of Falling
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/90860

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Alice Oswald accepting the Costa Book Award for Poetry last night. Falling Awake is beautiful book filled with curious insights into how we perceive the world.

I think if I was more of a poetry buff I would have LOVED this rather than liked lots of it. That's not Alice's fault that's mine. But I did like her take of some of the Classical tales and I particularly loved how she writes about nature. Definitely worth a try. I am just not the ideal audience for this, yet.

...they say the herons used to hang like lamps here giving off gloom now walkers float on the wings of their macs

Rather lovely nature poetry.