{"product_id":"book-gav6","title":"Hail, the Invisible Watchman","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHail, The Invisible Watchman\u003c\/i\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eHail, the Invisible Watchman\u003c\/i\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":"ECW Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49361910268208,"sku":"BDgav6","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/174718-gav6-Square.jpg?v=1734504329","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gav6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}