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The end of NOBODY

A revised version of NOBODY was published as a Cape Poetry edition in September 2019. It was redesigned and reset by Kevin Mount at The Letter Press and shows as a cover illustration Into The West by the camera-less photographer Garry Fabian Miller. See, for example, https://tinyurl.com/yybck6dq

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Last Evenings

A 20pp pamphlet wrapped in a poster, to coincide with the first showing of Garry Fabian Miller’s film Last Evenings at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday 13th October 2018. A soundtrack by the cellist and composer Oliver Coates was performed live and the event celebrated the opening the[…]

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NOBODY

NOBODY by Alice Oswald with 23 watercolours by William Tillyer was published by Bernard Jacobson in April 2018. It is a 120pp casebound book with dust jacket, 276mm x 190mm. To order contact: mail@jacobsongallery.com ‘The reader, as she leafs through the pages interspersed with Tillyer’s chromatic visual rhapsodies, experiences a thrilling,[…]

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Living Under the Digestive System

Living Under the Digestive System is an A3 die-cut broadsheet that folds down to an eight-page A6 pamphlet. The poster face shows the closing four lines of the poem. It was published in this form on February 2nd 2018 to coincide with the opening by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures[…]

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from NOBODY

This reversible arrangement of two extracts from NOBODY by Alice Oswald advertises the longer poem published in spring 2018 by 21 Editions. NOBODY is the result of a commission from the Bernard Jacobson Gallery and a three-year collaboration with William Tillyer, a sequence of whose watercolours accompanies the complete version. Two of William Tillyer’s images are shown on[…]

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Falling Awake

The Alice Oswald collection Falling Awake published in the UK by Cape Poetry in July 2016 and by W. W. Norton in the US the same August, includes resettings of a number of pieces first published by The Letter Press. It has as its centre-piece, Tithonus, which was first performed[…]

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The Rainstorm

Alice Oswald’s poem Rain was commissioned by Radio 3 as part of the BBC station’s 70th anniversary celebration. It was broadcast on November 2016 with a binaural sound design by Steve Brooke, and first performed live by Alice Oswald in July 2017 with improvised accompaniment by the jazz pianist Huw Warren[…]

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Tithonus

Tithonus: 46 minutes in the life of the dawn was commissioned by James Runcie for the 2014 London Literature Festival. The original edition was published for the Festival performance as a 28-page booklet inside an 8-page jacket. The text was set in Gerard Unger’s Gulliver typeface within a purposely awkward,[…]

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A drink from Cranmere Pool

This handmade translucent edition of the poem, A Drink from Cranmere Pool, was made in a first edition of 100 for the Museum of Water installation at Somerset House, London in June 2014. Commissioned by The Poetry Society, the batch was shared among visitors to the Roman Baths at Kings[…]

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