Hail The Invisible Watchman by Alexandra Oliver Paperback Book 9781771964715

A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022Hail The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetryOlivers formal schemes are as tidy as a picketfence and as suggestive behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant dark exploration of domestic and social alienationThe poems in Hail the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picketfenceamp8212and 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 divorcamp233eacutee In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections Alexandra Oliveramp8217s conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny