Description
| Product ID: | 9781771964715 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Hail, The Invisible Watchman |
| Authors: | Author: Alexandra Oliver |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry—Oliver’s formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fence—and as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighbourhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorcée. In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections, Alexandra Oliver’s conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny. A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry—Oliver’s formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. |
| Imprint Name: | Biblioasis |
| Publisher Name: | Biblioasis |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-05-26 |
