domingo, 5 de enero de 2025

“Falling Awake”, by Alice Oswald

After hearing her in a video online reciting her poem “A Short Story of Falling”, which she delivered in Toronto in 2017 when receiving the International Griffin Poetry Prize for the poetry collection “Falling Awake”, one cannot but to go to the book and read it aloud too. However, of course, the result is not the same. Her voice, her tone and her musicality are just simply perfect. Apart from that, the collection in which this poem is included is utterly impressive. Check, for example, “Swan” and “Fox" and their analogies with a plane-crash and a thief, respectively. An utterly amazing creativity! The book was published in 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company.


“The Radio”, by Leontia Flynn

At moments, you are taken to Belfast 1970’s. If you want so, this would be a very good choice. Reading the poem The Radio –which gives its ...