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Ingen
Det urgamle og det samtidige
Ingen er ei havbok, der tid og lagnader og menneskeliv speglar seg i denne alltid omskiftelege materien som vi kallar vatn. Forteljingane kring Odyssevs og Agamemnon dannar eit ekko-rom for desse dikta, og røysta som talar, er vind-gjennomblåsen og vasstrekt. Ho tilhøyrer havet sjølv. Eit hav som er like urgamalt som det er samtidig.
Kven er det som seier slikt det er berre tidevatnet
rennande som eit rykte over havbotnen eller
kven er det som teier still
når ringen til nokon på handa til ingen
søkk som eit auga inn i mørkret
og vinden fell
og vatnet skrik seg stumt
kven er det som talar seier ho
min ven
kven er det som vaktar meg attom dine
augnelokk
Alice Oswald (f. 1966) vart nyleg utnemnd til Oxford Professor of Poetry. Ingen (Nobody, 2019) er den åttande diktsamlinga hennar, og ho blir rekna for å vere blant dei aller viktigaste nolevande poetane i Storbritannia. Dette er første gong Alice Oswald blir utgitt på norsk.
Ingen er ei havbok, der tid og lagnader og menneskeliv speglar seg i denne alltid omskiftelege materien som vi kallar vatn. Forteljingane kring Odyssevs og Agamemnon dannar eit ekko-rom for desse dikta, og røysta som talar, er vind-gjennomblåsen og vasstrekt. Ho tilhøyrer havet sjølv. Eit hav som er like urgamalt som det er samtidig.
Kven er det som seier slikt det er berre tidevatnet
rennande som eit rykte over havbotnen eller
kven er det som teier still
når ringen til nokon på handa til ingen
søkk som eit auga inn i mørkret
og vinden fell
og vatnet skrik seg stumt
kven er det som talar seier ho
min ven
kven er det som vaktar meg attom dine
augnelokk
Alice Oswald (f. 1966) vart nyleg utnemnd til Oxford Professor of Poetry. Ingen (Nobody, 2019) er den åttande diktsamlinga hennar, og ho blir rekna for å vere blant dei aller viktigaste nolevande poetane i Storbritannia. Dette er første gong Alice Oswald blir utgitt på norsk.
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Alice Oswald
35 books234 followersAlice Oswald (born 1966) is a British poet who won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.
Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald (also a trained classicist), and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England.
Alice Oswald is the sister of actor Will Keen and writer Laura Beatty.
In 1994, she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), won a Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) in 1996, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997.
Her second collection, Dart (2002), combined verse and prose, which tells the story of the River Dart in Devon from a variety of perspectives. Jeanette Winterson called it a "... moving, changing poem, as fast-flowing as the river and as deep... a celebration of difference... " . Dart won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.
In 2004, Oswald was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her collection Woods etc., published in 2005, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
In 2009 she published both A Sleepwalk on the Severn and Weeds and Wildflowers, which won the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
In October 2011, Oswald published her 6th collection, Memorial.
Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald (also a trained classicist), and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England.
Alice Oswald is the sister of actor Will Keen and writer Laura Beatty.
In 1994, she was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), won a Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) in 1996, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997.
Her second collection, Dart (2002), combined verse and prose, which tells the story of the River Dart in Devon from a variety of perspectives. Jeanette Winterson called it a "... moving, changing poem, as fast-flowing as the river and as deep... a celebration of difference... " . Dart won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.
In 2004, Oswald was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her collection Woods etc., published in 2005, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
In 2009 she published both A Sleepwalk on the Severn and Weeds and Wildflowers, which won the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
In October 2011, Oswald published her 6th collection, Memorial.
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August 8, 2025
Jeg var så håpefull, for samlingen er oversatt til norsk ved Paal-Helge Haugen, og hans tekster liker jeg virkelig. Oswald not so much. For fjernt og lite håndfast, for spesielt uten jeg fant noen interessant(e) knagg(er) jeg kunne hekte tekstene på. Smaken er som baken, delt.
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