Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel Every story has a beginning

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the book also includes an Index of Characters

It parallels acknowledged greats with forgotten masters

treated with respect and even affection

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

Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel Every story has a beginningThis 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,