Outcanoevre
Aingeal Clare: Alice Oswald, 23 March 2006
“... reminiscent of the work of Ted Hughes, where they illustrate the ‘simple beingthereness’, as Seamus Heaney once described it, ‘of sea, stone, wind and tree’. There are other Hughesian influences with which it noticeably chimes. Take, for instance, the Crow-ishness of the following: I peeped out and saw myself sitting like a stone in the rain ... ”