Dart, by Alice Oswald textiles On every card there are

On every card there are five real answers and six fakes

Perfect for Spring and Summer reading

An essay by Michael Bracewell shares with its subjects the return of aesthetics to the science of feelings

As his star continues to rise

this is the kind of career break he desperately needs

Dart, by Alice Oswald textiles On every card there areAlice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned