Dart Tu Fu Written over three years in

Written over three years in the deserts of Arizona

At the heart of Bitter English is a sense of loss

philosophical and obscene

and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother

Dart Tu Fu Written over three years inAlice Oswald Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists and are interlinked with