Sleepers Awake

Oli Hazzard's third collection, Sleepers Awake, explores the disarray of care and work, nature, and technology, extracting ore from boredom and memory. The title borrows from a Lutheran hymn, capturing the book's dreamy, kaleidoscopic, cross-temporal dialogues. Through satirical, allusive, tender, and hopeful poems, it makes spaces for intimacy with the reader, arguing for the jovial texture of batshit relations and the pleasure of live-drawing in skeptical company.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd

Oli Hazzard's third collection, Sleepers Awake, emerges from the daily chaos of care and work, nature, and technology. Its ambitious and formally diverse poems extract the ore from boredom, as personal, familial, social, historical, and the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by dramatic disruptions in rhythm, space, and scale. The sadness and pain of forgetting are also present, alongside their unexpected forms of potential. The title, borrowed from the Lutheran hymn that inspired a Bach cantata, captures the book's dreamy, kaleidoscopic, cross-temporal dialogues. Through satirical, allusive, tender, and hopeful poems, Sleepers Awake creates spaces for intimacy with the reader, arguing through an off-key melody for the jovial texture of batshit relations, for the pleasure of live-drawing in skeptical company.

Weight: 164g
Dimension: 134 x 216 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800172999