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These are poems that are written to be read aloud

Falling Awake by Alice Oswald <b> PBS Choice Autumn 2016 </b> Autumn Bulletin ‘The poet and novelist ForrestPBS Choice Autumn 2016 Alice Oswalds poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and lifes losing struggle with the gravity of nature. Working as before with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to