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.