PositiveThe Huffington PostOswald’s most engaging trick is to consider living creatures with such trained concentration that, almost without the reader noticing, she inhabits their consciousness ... its current existence as a printed collection is not the incarnation for which it will be most celebrated, should Oswald choose to record it as a performance. Whilst Falling Awake doesn’t give sufficient grounds for the slightly sycophantic suggestion that Oswald is ‘our greatest living poet’, it is certainly a highly compelling meditation upon transience.
