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A Poem by Alice Oswald

I was shocked to find out yesterday that the poet (and former Professor of Poetry at Oxford University) Alice Oswald has been arrested under the UK’s draconian anti-terrorism laws at a peaceful protest for holding up a sign supporting Palestine Action, an organization opposed to the ongoing genocide being committed by Israel against the people of Gaza. Among the others arrested were an 89-year old woman and a blind man in a wheelchair. I expect these absurd and unjust actions will achieve the exact opposite of what the Government intended.

Anyway, I am an admirer of the poetry of Alice Oswald. I posted one of her poems here, and have four collections of her poems:

I thought I would post another now to express solidarity with Alice Oswald. This one is from the first of the collections shown above, in which it is simply titled Sonnet, though it is not a form of sonnet I have ever seen before!

Spacecraft Voyager 1 has boldly gone
into Deep Silence carrying a gold-plated disc inscribed with 
       whale-song
it has bleeped back a last infra-red fragment of language
and floated way way up over the jagged edge
of this almost endless bright and blowy enclosure of weather
to sink through a new texture as tenuous as the soft upward 
      pressure of an an elevator
and go on and on falling up steep flights of blackness with 
      increasing swiftness
beyond the Crystalline Cloud of the Dead beyond Plato beyond 
      Copernicus
O meticulous swivel cameras still registering events
among those homeless spaces gathering in that silence
that hasn't yet had time to speak        in that increasing sphere
of tiny runaway stars notched in the year
now you can look closely at massless light
that is said to travel freely but is probably in full flight

by Alice Oswald

#AliceOswald #Gaza #genocide #Israel #PalestineAction #Poem #Poetry #Sonnet #SpacecraftVoyager1

Fox #aliceOswald

I heard a cough
as if a thief was there
outside my sleep
a sharp intake of air

a fox in her fox-fur
stepping across
the grass in her black gloves
barked at my house

just so abrupt and odd
the way she went
hungrily asking
in the heart's thick accent

in such serious sleepless
trespass she came
a woman with a man's voice
but no name

as if to say: it's midnight
and my life
is laid beneath my children
like gold leaf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90861/fox-57ebdf5d8cd6d

‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/24/greek-classics-pat-barker-brie-larson-hunger-games-moulin-rouge #Classicsandancienthistory #AliceOswald #RickRiordan #EllaHickson #StephenFry #BrieLarson #PatBarker #Culture #Fiction #Books #Homer

‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/24/greek-classics-pat-barker-brie-larson-hunger-games-moulin-rouge #Classicsandancienthistory #AliceOswald #RickRiordan #EllaHickson #StephenFry #BrieLarson #PatBarker #Culture #Fiction #Books #Homer

A line of Shags criticising the weather at the start line this morning.
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#SharonOlds Stag's Leap, #AliceOswald Falling Awake

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#SharonOlds Stag's Leap, #AliceOswald Falling Awake