{"product_id":"blotter-oli-hazzard-9781784105303","title":"Blotter","description":"Oli Hazzard's \u003ci\u003eBlotter\u003c\/i\u003e consists of five sequences, each constructed using a different process. In \"Graig Syfyrddin\" notes on hillwalking in the Welsh marches - the poet's former home - alternate with found text taken from an online walking forum. \"Blotter\" is a shepherd's calendar of sonnets composed of Russian spambot script - a mix of lifestyle advice, gaming tips, authoritarian propaganda, bucolic fragments and apocalyptic messages. \"Within Habit\" is a series of prose poems collaged from numerous sources. \"March and May\" comprises parallel columns of verse. \"Or As\" is a family of 81 seventeen-syllable poems, each one an erasure of the corresponding page in a different book the poet was writing alongside \u003ci\u003eBlotter\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems are preoccupied, above all, with the passage of time, and how that passage can be differently registered or disturbed: the working day, the distorted seasons, the timestamp of a text message, the jottings of a daybook, the formal structure of a shepherd's calendar, the double exposure of a photograph, the reverse-flow of a Twitter feed. The title, \u003ci\u003eBlotter\u003c\/i\u003e, connects these concerns, suggesting at once a police blotter, a journal, a thing for drying wet spots, and, in its painterly connotation, a way of rendering the world in a manner that is vague, blurred, or out of focus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oli Hazzard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784105309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784105303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Oli Hazzard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634579108095,"sku":"9781784105303","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68a851ff-7ac8-40f9-99ab-5c9a3d8229de.jpg?v=1703589959","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blotter-oli-hazzard-9781784105303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}