Alice Oswald takes £37,000 Griffin prize with 'breathtaking' poetry | Books | The Guardian

Prize judge George Szirtes said that after reading through 617 submissions it was %u201Cnot too hard a choice%u201D to select Oswald%u2019s collection. Falling Awake by Alice Oswald review %u2013 a dazzling celebration of nature Music meets myth in Oswald%u2019s dreamlike visions of a West Country landscape Read more %u201CFalling Awake is more evidence that she is doing more original, more breathtakingly impressive and important things than anyone else we read for the prize,%u201D he said. %u201CHer explorations of nature and time open new ways of exploring the world we live in. She works with great lyric and philosophical courage and can touch notes that move and extend us.%u201D