{"product_id":"rhapsody","title":"Alice Oswald: Rhapsody [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This book is a living, guiding, singing thing... I will cherish it and revisit it as long as I live' \u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the finest living poets writing in English' \u003cb\u003eRaymond Antrobus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form - before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice - and finds it still speaking all around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as an attempt to 'interview' Homer becomes a thrilling exploration of an anonymous tradition that exists beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners, of nightingales, grasshoppers and rivers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZigzagging through ballads, riddles, pibrochs, drama, interviews, artificial intelligence and sonnets, \u003ci\u003eRhapsody\u003c\/i\u003e is a restless, miraculous exploration of poetry in its most vital form, and a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once intimate and expansive, Oswald invites us to listen to the voices that shape us, and to recognise poetry not as a solitary, written art, but as a communal, essential human inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oswald, Alice","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54387191284051,"sku":"9781787332218","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9781787332218.jpg?v=1784830786","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/rhapsody","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}