Hail, the Invisible Watchman
Hail, the Invisible Watchman
Marilyn Stanley
, Karen Nordrum
, Deana Bueley
, Jude Castillo
, Barry Kazimer
, Simran Bassi
, Andrea Gillespie
, Deb Philippon
, Linda Leitch
, Holly Elisabeth
, Elaine Baptie
, Noelle Walsh
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Tina May
, Jacob Cebulak
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Chelsey Boley
, Anndee Newson
, Sarah Schwartz
, Melissa Kohlman
, Hoda Montazeri
, Joshua Lewis
, cassandra schiemann
, Dawn Macdonald
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Nancy Daoust
, Lise Gaston
, LJ Law
, Kim Cappellina
, Michelle Power
, Elizabeth Blondin
, Brenda Power
, Maria Mclean
, Frances Boyle
, Aingeal Stone
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Paula Ritchie
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Megan Brodie
, Melissa Poremba
, Patricia Johnson
, Karen Kendrick
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Christopher Evans
, Rachel Edmonds
, Heather Belliveau
, Lauren Seal
, Natasa Ilic
, Lynn Hallson
, Randi Ann Doll
, Robert Hykawy
, Joann Horgan
, Rebecca Forest
, Chris Lantz
, Denise Duvall
, Ken Gilmour
, Ruth Osgood
, Teira Stauth
, Benita Hartwell
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Alex Henderson
, Andrea Pole
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Stephanie Baird
, Elissa Clemens
, Mary Campbell
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Annesah Hussain
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Lisa Mallia
, Katie Olivier
, Yolande Thivierge
, BJ Underwood
, Chris Carvalho
, Melanie Solar
, Kim Wiggins
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Lara Maynard
, Sara Conway
, Janet Meisner
, April van der Ham
, Janice Cournoyer
, Debra Chandler
, zelda dwyer
, Thelma Ball
, Nadia Cescato
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Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry—Alexandra 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 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.
