Nobody by Alice Oswald
A spare, lyrical reimagining of the Odyssey’s famous encounter with the Cyclops, rendered as a fragmentary, single-voice poem that probes the meanings of name, identity and survival. The work collapses ancient myth and contemporary speech into restless, associative lines that dwell on violence, aftermath and the mutability of story: a voice that alternately boasts, questions, mourns and erases itself, circling the personal and political costs of conflict while registering landscape, memory and the slippery ethics of telling tales about the dead.
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- 2019
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