{"product_id":"9781787332218","title":"Rhapsody : A Manifesto - Alice Oswald","description":"This book is a living, guiding, singing thing... I will cherish it and revisit it as long as I live' Max Porter'One of the finest living poets writing in English' Raymond AntrobusA daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poetsAlice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form - before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice - and finds it still speaking all around us. What begins as an attempt to `interview' Homer becomes a thrilling exploration of an anonymous tradition that exists beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners, of nightingales, grasshoppers and rivers. Zigzagging through ballads, riddles, pibrochs, drama, interviews, artificial intelligence and sonnets, Rhapsody is a restless, miraculous exploration of poetry in its most vital form, and a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition. At once intimate and expansive, Oswald invites us to listen to the voices that shape us, and to recognise poetry not as a solitary, written art, but as a communal, essential human inheritance.","brand":"Alice Oswald","offers":[{"title":"304 pages \/ 17\/09\/2026 \/ Literature: history \u0026 criticism","offer_id":57415928021367,"sku":"9781787332218","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781787332218.jpg?v=1787909761","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781787332218","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}