Dart Tu Fu and cultural pressures pre- and

and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother

Written from within the strictures of the working day

The poetic voice emerges in Montevideo

At the heart of Bitter English is a sense of loss

Written over three years in the deserts of Arizona

Dart Tu Fu and cultural pressures pre- andAlice Oswald Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists and are interlinked with