Blotter by Oli Hazzard
From the winner of the Michael Murphy Memoiral Prize and the 2013 Eric Gregory Award, a new collection of pastoral poems of crisis, parenting and the internet.
'Hazzard's gift lies in making the unusual seem aphoristic, turning words on their heads to shock an unsuspecting reader' - The Economist; `A beautiful, bracing book of surprising, absorbing itineraries, Blotter takes brilliant soundings of linguistic pools and discursive surrounds. These astonishing, seductive sequences explore “how time is layered / into the paint”. Hazzard is a formidably inventive poet; he is also a generous, playful, inviting one. He abolishes the distance between the conceptual and the lyrical, updating Wordsworth’s “selection of the real language of men” for our GPS moment. His sequences bespeak their compositional procedures but also something irreducibly else: the poet in and of the hinge, the gap, the step, the scroll, the click, the synapse — a shaping and shaped tender intelligence. Like the most ambitious works of any era, Hazzard’s poems create their own occasions and terms. They invite us to enter new fields, to go skying toward new horizons, to sense a lover’s touch, to hear both “a lullaby” and “the shocking truth”.’ - Maureen N. McLane
Oli Hazzard is the author of two books of poems, Between Two Windows (Carcanet, 2012) and Blotter (Carcanet, 2018), and a novel, Lorem Ipsum (Prototype, 2021). He teaches at the University of St Andrews and lives in Glasgow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784105303 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784105309 |
| Title | Blotter |
| Author | Oli Hazzard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
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