{"product_id":"hail-the-invisible-watchman","title":"Hail The Invisible Watchman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eHail, The Invisible Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eHail, the Invisible Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e 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.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313260372350,"sku":"NW9781771964715","price":11.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781771964715.jpg?v=1778591762","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/hail-the-invisible-watchman","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}