# Rhapsody

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- Book: [Rhapsody](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-oswald/rhapsody) ([Rhapsody.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-oswald/rhapsody.md))
- Authors: [Alice Oswald](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-oswald)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 34 min
- Narrated by: Alice Oswald
- ISBN: 978-15-2997-524-6
- Published: 2026-09-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 6 h 34 min

## Description

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 wide-ranging 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. © Alice Oswald 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026