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Food and Drink
The darling buzz of May
16 May 2012
Lifestyle
Liquid rules of sympathy
19 April 2012

For rain to be proper rain, it has to be moving and to keep moving — just like the tramp Alice Oswald met who’s been on the move for the past 30 years.

Notes from underground
28 February 2012

Burial, bodies, and going back to the beginning.

Blow, winds, and puff your cheeks
16 January 2012
Books
The unbearable brightness of speaking
17 October 2011

Fixated by Homer since the age of 16, Alice Oswald has now written her own version of the Iliad. Translating the Greek master's vivid imagery hasn't been easy.

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