The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile
by Oswald, AliceFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-08-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Alice Oswald's first book of poems, The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile is more confident and achieved than many first collections. Previously published in Anvil New Poets 2 , a selection chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, and winner of the 1994 Eric Gregory Award, Oswald already clearly demonstrates a distinct voice. The poems here are extraordinarily beautiful: intensely musical, strewn with emotion, and full of energy and warmth. Influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Herbert, they speak passionately of nature and love. They have a religious sense of mystery, and try to express the intangible in marvellously vivid language. The second part of the book features an entertaining long poem titled The Men of Gotham , a comical folk-legend about the three men who went to sea to try to catch the moon in a net. Taken together, this is a wonderful first collection by an exceptionally talented young poet.
Author Biography
About the Author:
Alice Oswald is a professional gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, England.
Table of Contents
| Pruning in Frost | p. 1 |
| A Greyhound in the Evening after a Long Day of Rain | p. 2 |
| The Glass House | p. 4 |
| My Neighbour, Mrs Kersey | p. 5 |
| Sleep | p. 6 |
| Poem | p. 7 |
| A Wood Coming into Leaf | p. 8 |
| Sonnet: When I sit up this late | p. 9 |
| Sonnet: I can't sleep | p. 10 |
| Since Love is Round | p. 11 |
| Epitaph | p. 12 |
| April | p. 13 |
| Woman in a Mustard Field | p. 14 |
| Bike Ride on a Roman Road | p. 15 |
| The Moon Addresses her Reflection | p. 16 |
| Sea Sonnet | p. 17 |
| Sea Sonnet | p. 18 |
| Sea Sonnet | p. 19 |
| Estuary Sonnet | p. 20 |
| I Bicycled past a Ship | p. 21 |
| Conde Arnaldos | p. 22 |
| The Pilchard-Curing Song | p. 23 |
| Privet Property | p. 24 |
| Ballad of a Shadow | p. 25 |
| Wedding | p. 26 |
| Otter Out and In | p. 27 |
| Owl Village | p. 28 |
| If Stones could Fly | p. 29 |
| The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile | p. 30 |
| When a Stone was Wrecking his Country | p. 31 |
| Mountains | p. 32 |
| Gardeners at the Resurrection | p. 33 |
| The Gardeners in the Shed | p. 34 |
| The Apple Shed | p. 35 |
| The Melon Grower | p. 36 |
| Prayer | p. 38 |
| The Three Wise Men of Gotham who Set Out to Catch the Moon in a Net | p. 39 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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