Hail, the Invisible Watchman by Oliver, Alexandra

Hail, the Invisible Watchman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771964715)

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Hail, the Invisible Watchman by Oliver, Alexandra

Hail, the Invisible Watchman

$15.95
Hail, the Invisible Watchman by Oliver, Alexandra

Hail, the Invisible Watchman

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

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 divorc馥. 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.

Author: Alexandra Oliver
ISBN-10: 1771964715
ISBN-13: 9781771964715
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.40d
By Alexandra Oliver
By Alexandra Oliver
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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 (Everyman's 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 Maine's 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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