{"title":"Alice Oswald","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Oswald's work offers a profound exploration of nature, memory, and human experience through poetic form. Her books, including \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e, blend lyrical innovation with deep reflection, inviting readers to engage with the landscapes and stories that shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e tradition, Oswald’s writing captures the fluidity of life and loss, often drawing from classical mythology and contemporary observation. Her voice is both intimate and sweeping, making her works essential for lovers of modern poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"memorial-by-alice-oswald-9780571274185","title":"Memorial","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew Arnold praised the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since. However, ancient critics praised it for its \u003cem\u003eenargeia\u003c\/em\u003e, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story. Her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names. Yet each of whom lives and dies unforgettably—and unforgotten—in the copiousness of Homer's glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e is an oral poem. This translation presents it as an attempt—in the aftermath of the Trojan War—to remember people's names and lives without the use of writing. I hope it will have its own coherence as a series of memories and similes laid side by side: an antiphonal account of man in his world. This is compatible with the spirit of oral poetry, which was never stable but always adapting itself to a new audience, as if its language, unlike written language, was still alive and kicking.' - Alice Oswald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596977029356,"sku":"9780571274185","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e54a4601448699ed70ce75963476ad56.jpg?v=1778038612"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alice-oswald.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}