Woods etc. by Alice Oswald Kate Tempest he has grown a beard

he has grown a beard and become quite old

In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child'

and shared with audiences over twenty years

but is often the only way to assuage pain

Woods etc. by Alice Oswald Kate Tempest he has grown a beardWoods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity. Faber & Faber