Alice Oswald | Bridport Literary Festival
Event Details
Bridport Literary Festival – Out of Festival Event
Alice Oswald | Rhapsody
Thursday 03 December at 7.30pm
Bridport Arts Centre, 9 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NR
Tickets: £14.00 available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online via Bridport Arts Centre
Join the brilliant Alice Oswald as she goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form, before it was written down and belonged to any single voice.
Rhapsody: A Manifesto begins as an attempt to “interviewˮ Homer and becomes a thrilling exploration of an anonymous tradition that brings together singers, storytellers, mourners, nightingales and rivers.
Oswald invites us to listen to the voices that shape us, and to recognise poetry as a communal and essential human inheritance. The result is a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition. Alice Oswald has been awarded the TS Eliot Prize, Forward Poetry Prize,
Griffin Poetry Prize and Costa d Poetry Award. She was Oxford
Professor of Poetry 2019-2024.
For more information please visit www.bridlit.com