Rhapsody

Name: Rhapsody
Brand: RANDOM HOUSE UK
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A Manifesto

By: Alice Oswald

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Hardcover | 1 December 2026

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A daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poets

'This book is a living, guiding, singing thing... I will cherish it and revisit it as long as I live' Max Porter

'One of the finest living poets writing in English' Raymond Antrobus

A daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poets

Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form - before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice - and finds it still speaking all around us.

What begins as an attempt to 'interview' Homer becomes a thrilling exploration of an anonymous tradition that exists beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners, of nightingales, grasshoppers and rivers.

Zigzagging through ballads, riddles, pibrochs, drama, interviews, artificial intelligence and sonnets, Rhapsody is a restless, miraculous exploration of poetry in its most vital form, and a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition.

At once intimate and expansive, Oswald invites us to listen to the voices that shape us, and to recognise poetry not as a solitary, written art, but as a communal, essential human inheritance.

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