Alice Oswald studied Classics at Oxford and then trained as a gardener. She worked in gardens for seven years before publishing her first book of poems, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, which won the Forward Prize in 1996. She won the T.S. Eliot prize in 2002. Weeds and Wildflowers won the Ted Hughes award, A Sleepwalk on the Severn won the Hawthornden prize and Memorial won the Warwick prize. She was the Oxford Professor of Poetry 2019 – 2023. Her most recent collection, Nobody, was published in 2019.
Alice Oswald
