#  Alice Oswald in conversation with Teju Cole 

 



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 **December 9, 2020** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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##  [WRITERS SPEAK](/writers-speak)

##  SPEAKER: Alice Oswald

 "With Homer" – a conversation and reading with Teju Cole

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 **[Alice Oswald](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alice-oswald)** was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Her first collection of poetry, *The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile* (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Oswald often works in book-length projects and is known for her interests in gardening, ecology, and music. Her second book, *Dart* (2002), was the outcome of years of primary and secondary research into the history, environment, and community along the River Dart in Devon, England. Oswald’s other collections of poetry include *Woods, etc.* (2005), winner of a Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; *Weeds and Wild Flowers* (2009), illustrated by Jessica Greenman; *A Sleepwalk on the Severn* (2009); *Memorial* (2011), a reworking of Homer’s Iliad that has received high critical praise for its innovative approach and stunning imagery, which won the 2013 Warwick Prize for writing; and *Falling Awake* (2016). Her latest book is *Nobody* (2019), a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey, about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. Oswald’s many honors and awards include an Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Foundation Award for Poetry, a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and a Ted Hughes Awards.

 **[Teju Cole](http://www.tejucole.com/about-2/)** is a novelist, photographer, critic, curator, and the author of five books. He was the photography critic of the *New York Times Magazine* from 2015 until 2019. He is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard.

###  About the Series

 *[Writers Speak](/writers-speak), a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by **[Claire Messud](http://clairemessud.com/)**, a novelist and Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction at Harvard University.*

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