Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald co-led MA poetics of Imagination at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. She  studied Classics at Oxford and then trained as a gardener.  She has written six collections of poetry.

In 2019, she took up the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry. Her most recent collection, Nobody, reworks Homer's The Odyssey. Her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), won the Forward poetry prize for best first collection. In 2002, she won the TS Eliot for Dart, about the river in Devon.