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Hail, The Invisible Watchman

★★★★★
★★★★★

English

By (author): Alexandra Oliver

A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022

Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetryOlivers 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-fenceand 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 Olivers conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 133 x 209mm
  • Publication Date: 26 May 2022
  • Publisher: Biblioasis
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781771964715

About Alexandra Oliver

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver BC. She is the author of three collections published through Biblioasis: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013; recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award) Let the Empire Down ( 2016) and Hail the Invisible Watchman (2022). Her libretto for From the Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King conceived in conjunction with composer Scott Wilson at the University of Birmingham was performed by Continuum Music in Toronto in December 2017. Oliver is a past co-editor of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everymans Library/Random House 2015) as well as of the formalist journal The Rotary Dial. She has performed her work for CBC Radio and NPR as well as at The National Poetry Slam and numerous festivals and conferences. Oliver holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maines Stonecoast program and a Ph.D. in English from McMaster University. She lives in Burlington Ontario with her husband and son.

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