{"product_id":"rhapsody-by-alice-oswald","title":"Rhapsody by Alice Oswald","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This book is a living, guiding, singing thing... I will cherish it and revisit it as long as I live' Max Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the finest living poets writing in English' Raymond Antrobus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form – before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice – and finds it still speaking all around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as an attempt to ‘interview’ Homer becomes a thrilling exploration of an anonymous tradition that exists beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners, of nightingales, grasshoppers and rivers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZigzagging through ballads, riddles, pibrochs, drama, interviews, artificial intelligence and sonnets, Rhapsody is a restless, miraculous exploration of poetry in its most vital form, and a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt once intimate and expansive, Oswald invites us to listen to the voices that shape us, and to recognise poetry not as a solitary, written art, but as a communal, essential human inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60021715566976,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/9781787332218-jacket-large.webp?v=1790868760","url":"https:\/\/poetrypharmacy.live\/products\/rhapsody-by-alice-oswald","provider":"The Poetry Pharmacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}