'Not yet not yet' - Forms of Defiance in Alice Oswald's Poetry

Martindale, Kym (2013) 'Not yet not yet' - Forms of Defiance in Alice Oswald's Poetry. In: Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature . Routledge, London, pp. 158-173. ISBN 978-0-415-82161-2

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This essay examines two poems by Oswald, from her collection Woods, etc. to reveal a 21st century philosophy regarding the body-soul dichotomy. The two poems explore the permeability of the body, as an unstable entity; they are also highly dependent on form in their exploration, both poetic and physical form.

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