Review – Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald. Cape Poetry, Jonathan Cape, 96pp. £10.00
One of my favourite poems in Falling Awake is the first, “A Short History of Falling”, with its lilting cadences and lovely musical returns of sound and idea:
It is the story of the falling rain
to turn into a leaf and fall again
it is the secret of a summer shower
to steal the light and hide it in a flower
and every flower a tiny tributary
that from the ground flows green and momentary
That’s like a fairytale, using a childlike simplicity of language to evoke vast, complicated processes … Continue Reading