Description
Book SynopsisA collage of water stories from the
Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.
Trade Review"A radical rereading and re-voicing of
The Odyssey, an oceanic nameless lyric with undercurrents from
The Oresteia and
Philoctetes…
Nobody is a sorrowing, timeless, up-to-the-minute, majestic, goose-fleshed meditation on what it is to be mortal." -- Rosanna Warren, author of So Forth
"Electrifying…[
Nobody] is mythical and realistic, ancient and modern…Oswald is at the top of her form here." -- Kate Kellaway - Observer
"A paean to water, to the fluidity of language and the porousness between beings and stories…[T]he effects of reading
Nobody linger in and around the mind long after the experience has passed." -- Maria Crawford - Financial Times
"The rush of unexpected language is thrilling…It is a wonderfully skillful tarantella of syllables and images…
Nobody is Oswald’s most formally freehand work, a fragmentary gathering of murmurings searching for the excitement of new meaning." -- Jeremy Noel-Todd - Sunday Times
"[Oswald is] a revolutionary, an eco-poet whose ideas are alive with sensory experience. These seeming paradoxes create exceptional resonance, and the sense of an urgency that transcends poetry itself…
Nobody is a kind of verse novel which refuses even the conventions of storytelling." -- Fiona Sampson - Guardian
