emFalling Awakeem, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, gives us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality Dan Chiasson, emThe New Yorkerem. emFalling Awakeem expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's emIliadem portrayed in her previous volume, emMemorialem--defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures such as Orpheus and Tithonus alive in an English landscape together with shadows, flies, villagers, dew, crickets--all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower. pFROM VERTIGObr let me shuffle forwardbr and tell you the two minute life of rainbr starting right nowbr lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gazep