
Hail, The Invisible Watchman
by Alexandra Oliver
Title:
Hail, The Invisible Watchman
Author:
Alexandra Oliver
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Biblioasis
ISBN-13:
9781771964715
EAN:
9781771964715
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
252
Dimensions (mm):
216 x 139 x 10
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
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 divorcéeacute;e. 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.










