Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed is a collection of poems that explore the brutality of language and the subjugation of women's voices, bodies, and labor. It features a poetic sensibility that is both at odds with convention and equal to the moment, and each poem is a transformation. The second edition of the book, published in February 2024, includes a newly commissioned introduction by Olivia Kan-Sperling.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Montez Press

Oliver Reed, a collection of poems by Hannah Regel, explores the brutalization of language and the subjugation of women's voices, bodies, and labor through the figure of the horse. The poems are a hyperbolic pastiche of pleasurable misbehavior, guiding a girl named Sorry through her own undoing while naming new tools for calculated resistance. Regel creates a new order for the ecstatic wreckage of obedience, offering a poetic sensibility that is as at odds with convention as it is equal to the moment. The poems explore our own creatureliness with a deadly curiosity, transforming the actor into a strange muse and guiding presence, the horse into more than an emblem of eros, labor, and suffering, and the young girl's bratty insolence into defiance and stricken. The poems are also watchful and vigilant, offering a means of protection. The second edition of Oliver Reed, published in February 2024, includes a newly commissioned introduction by Olivia Kan-Sperling.

Weight: 132g
Dimension: 118 x 201 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783945247297