{"product_id":"hail-the-invisible-watchmanbooks","title":"Hail, the Invisible Watchman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oliver, Alexandra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Poetry)","offer_id":45399533453536,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_37e284c6-68ed-43ed-b084-754236fbe4ed.jpg?v=1714058125","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/hail-the-invisible-watchmanbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}