Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel knowledge and sympathy

knowledge and sympathy

Illustration entitled "Sporty Flowers" printed on a luxurious satin scarf

Pendant is 2

Sitting Height: 22cm

Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel knowledge and sympathyThis is a book length poem a collage of water stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape shifting sea god. We recognise other mythical characters Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra,