Again, like the ebb and flow of the tide or the fatal fall of the watchmaker's timepiece, Alice Oswald mesmerises me once more with her recently published book of poetry. I am like a rabbit captured in her headlights unable to fully understand the words that cascade and fall off the page and yet remain smitten. Is it any wonder she is now the Professor of Poetry at Oxford? I don't have the ability or talent to do justice to her most recent collection, "Nobody". All the same, it captivates me, it turns my head and like another Alice, she leads me by the hand down the hole where she reveals to me a world, my world, our world, the world of nature, the natural world and our relationship to it.
Yet another wonderful, wonderful collection of poems. As with Bowie, The Beatles, Captain Beefheart, The Fall and Kate Bush, I so want the magic to continue beyond this moment. But what do I know? I am "Nobody."
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