Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel The work is part of

The work is part of a strictly limited edition of 250

treated with respect and even affection

knowledge and sympathy

Can’t decide

autobiographical

Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel The work is part ofThis is a book length poem a collage of water stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape shifting sea god. We recognise other mythical characters Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra,