Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is one of those poets whose biography quietly explains the work: she is also a gardener, and you sense that intimacy with soil and water in the precision of her language. Winning the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin, and serving as Oxford Professor of Poetry, she has every institutional honor, yet her gaze stays fixed on rivers, weather, and the living world rather than on literary fashion. I admire writers who keep their hands in the dirt, literally and otherwise. Her poems feel meant to be read aloud, and that oral, breathing quality is, for me, what makes them last.

Name (English)

Alice Oswald

Name (Japanese)

アリス・オズワルド

Reading

ありす・おずわるど

Born

January 1, 1966 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Horse

Origin

Reading, United Kingdom

Occupation

poet / writer / gardener

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Cholmondeley Award
• 1994 Eric Gregory Award
• 2013 Popescu Prize
• 2010 Hawthornden Prize

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Oswald
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4726044

Tags

• poet
• writer
• gardener

Last updated

2026-06-21

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