Description
In her second book, Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of Canada to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals--on the streets, by rivers, in museums, on playgrounds, in their own homes, in the ill-starred town of Lockerbie--Oliver reflects on issues of exile, memory and identity, while traveling back into her own past.
5+ city tour across United States Co-op available Is connected to: the West Chester Poetry Conference (Kim Bridgford, Philadelphia); Taylor Mali in NYC (organizer of the Urbana Slam & the Page Meets Stage Series); Bob Holman, NYC, owner of the Bowery Poetry Club; Jeffrey McDaniel, NYC poet, connected to Sarah Lawrence; Anna M. Evans/Quincy Lehr of the Carmine St. Metrics reading series/The Raintown Review; in LA to Timothy Steele, Leslie Monsour, and Julie Kane (poet laureate of LA); in Seattle, Lana Hechtman Ayers, who would organize a reading, Daemond Arrindel, organizer of the Seattle Slam, Elizabeth Austen (NPR), Jeremy Richards (also radio), and visual artist Hanita Schwartz. Again, we have contact information for all of them. National radio campaign (targeting NPR/The Writer's Almanac/Tell Me More, plus anyone AO's ever spoken with on-air) National print campaign targeting Poetry, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Poets & Writers, Poetry Show, Parnassus, Slate, NPR.org/David Orr; again will make shameless use of AO's connections Possible promotional videos through her film connections Print campaign will also target poetry bloggers/reviewers Promotion through www.alexandraoliver.ca Social media campaign with focus on poetry performance videos/YouTube Goodreads giveaways Promotional broadsides
About the Author
Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. Her last book Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (Biblioasis 2013) was the recipient of the 2014 Pat Lowther award. Oliver is the co-editor (with Annie Finch) of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Random House/Everyman 2014) as well as a co-editor of Canadian formalist journal The Rotary Dial, and a contributing editor for both Partisan and ARC Poetry. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.
Reviews
"An incredible feat of vision and voice ... technically, nothing is out of Oliver's grasp. Her go-to iambic pentameter can swallow anything in its path."--The National Post "Alexandra Oliver has many arrows in her quiver--all of them sharpened to a fine point. In satirical work like "The Classics Lesson," she is mordantly funny. Yet she can also treat her subjects quietly and with touching understatement, as in "Chinese Food with Gavra, Aged Three." Ms. Oliver is, moreover, technically resourceful in the best sense ... This is an excellent and entertaining collection."--Timothy Steele, author of Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems "It is sometimes argued that our disjunctive times need to be mirrored by disjunctive forms: only aesthetic disorder can respond to our experience. Such a simplicity is disproven by Alexandra Oliver's Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, in which disjunctions of many kinds (such as the one in her title) are brought to order by the poet's refining passion and corrosive wit. Here are brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice."--Charles Martin, author of Unwritten "Alexandra Oliver is in full command of a saber wit and impeccable ear. With these she tackles nothing less than the unsettling hazards, absurd encounters, and oddball ironies of our modern predicament to make poems that bite and entertain... Lucky the reader along for the ride."--Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Placebo Effects "One of the most exciting things about her work is the way she takes a different route from the in-your-face newness and hybridity our market now demands."--The Walrus
Book Information
ISBN 9781771960786
Author Alexandra Oliver
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Biblioasis
Publisher Biblioasis
Weight(grams) 85g
5+ city tour across United States Co-op available Is connected to: the West Chester Poetry Conference (Kim Bridgford, Philadelphia); Taylor Mali in NYC (organizer of the Urbana Slam & the Page Meets Stage Series); Bob Holman, NYC, owner of the Bowery Poetry Club; Jeffrey McDaniel, NYC poet, connected to Sarah Lawrence; Anna M. Evans/Quincy Lehr of the Carmine St. Metrics reading series/The Raintown Review; in LA to Timothy Steele, Leslie Monsour, and Julie Kane (poet laureate of LA); in Seattle, Lana Hechtman Ayers, who would organize a reading, Daemond Arrindel, organizer of the Seattle Slam, Elizabeth Austen (NPR), Jeremy Richards (also radio), and visual artist Hanita Schwartz. Again, we have contact information for all of them. National radio campaign (targeting NPR/The Writer's Almanac/Tell Me More, plus anyone AO's ever spoken with on-air) National print campaign targeting Poetry, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Poets & Writers, Poetry Show, Parnassus, Slate, NPR.org/David Orr; again will make shameless use of AO's connections Possible promotional videos through her film connections Print campaign will also target poetry bloggers/reviewers Promotion through www.alexandraoliver.ca Social media campaign with focus on poetry performance videos/YouTube Goodreads giveaways Promotional broadsides
About the Author
Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. Her last book Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (Biblioasis 2013) was the recipient of the 2014 Pat Lowther award. Oliver is the co-editor (with Annie Finch) of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Random House/Everyman 2014) as well as a co-editor of Canadian formalist journal The Rotary Dial, and a contributing editor for both Partisan and ARC Poetry. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.
Reviews
"An incredible feat of vision and voice ... technically, nothing is out of Oliver's grasp. Her go-to iambic pentameter can swallow anything in its path."--The National Post "Alexandra Oliver has many arrows in her quiver--all of them sharpened to a fine point. In satirical work like "The Classics Lesson," she is mordantly funny. Yet she can also treat her subjects quietly and with touching understatement, as in "Chinese Food with Gavra, Aged Three." Ms. Oliver is, moreover, technically resourceful in the best sense ... This is an excellent and entertaining collection."--Timothy Steele, author of Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems "It is sometimes argued that our disjunctive times need to be mirrored by disjunctive forms: only aesthetic disorder can respond to our experience. Such a simplicity is disproven by Alexandra Oliver's Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, in which disjunctions of many kinds (such as the one in her title) are brought to order by the poet's refining passion and corrosive wit. Here are brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice."--Charles Martin, author of Unwritten "Alexandra Oliver is in full command of a saber wit and impeccable ear. With these she tackles nothing less than the unsettling hazards, absurd encounters, and oddball ironies of our modern predicament to make poems that bite and entertain... Lucky the reader along for the ride."--Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Placebo Effects "One of the most exciting things about her work is the way she takes a different route from the in-your-face newness and hybridity our market now demands."--The Walrus
Book Information
ISBN 9781771960786
Author Alexandra Oliver
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Biblioasis
Publisher Biblioasis
Weight(grams) 85g
