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Hail, the Invisible Watchman

by Alexandra Oliver
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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 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.

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  • Release date

    April 5, 2022

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781771964722

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781771964722
      • File size: 2084 KB

  • Languages

    • English

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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