Nobody (9781787331969)

**WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2019**

'Alice Oswald is at the height of her powers in...this electrifying new work' Observer

This is a book-length poem - a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey - about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. We recognise other mythical characters - Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes - who drift in and out of the poem, surfacing briefly before disappearing.

Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean: a destabilising experience that becomes mesmeric, almost hallucinatory, as we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water - fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves. As with all of Alice Oswald's work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but this poem takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular and liquid.

one person has the character of dust

another has an arrow for a soul

but their sto ries all end

somewhere

in the sea

'An invigorating book-length poem' Sara Wheeler

Product details

• Format Paperback | 88 pages
• Dimensions 131 x 198 x 7mm | 107g
• Publication date 05 Sep 2019
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1787331962
• ISBN13 9781787331969
• Bestsellers rank 43,650

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