This event is co-presented with The Authors Guild Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Please visit authorsguild.org and poets.org for more information. A rare U.S. appearance by Alice Oswald, one of our finest performers of poetry. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, her latest book of poems, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. As with all of Oswald’s work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice. Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves. “I’m a real believer in live performance—in getting a human body, like a musical instrument, to stand up and play,” Oswald has said. “To me, that’s better than anything. I have an image of the oral poem—that thing that is always a becoming thing, always on the point of being complete. But just as it begins to complete itself, it vanishes. It’s a performance that’s kind of set up and then melts away and leaves no trace.” This event is part of a collaboration between the Authors Guild Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Strand Book Store, where we gather writers for live events that highlight the importance of a rich, diverse literary culture and the authors who contribute to it, and provide a space for writers and readers to connect in-person. Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of Nobody here. ACCESSIBILITY: Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by January 27 to request. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. Familiar voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes, and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. As with all of Oswald’s work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but here the language takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular, and liquid. Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves. Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

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