Woods etc. by Alice Oswald Kate Tempest Oaks are some of our

Oaks are some of our oldest companions

with an AA route map

because how human beings treat each other is inextricably linked to the threat to the natural world

seeking connection and always

In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child'

Woods etc. by Alice Oswald Kate Tempest Oaks are some of ourWoods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity. Faber & Faber