Blotter Paperback / softback
by Oli Hazzard
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Oli Hazzard's Blotter consists of five sequences, each constructed using a different process.
In `Graig Syfyrddin' notes on hillwalking in the Welsh marches - the poet's former home - alternate with found text taken from an online walking forum. `Blotter' is a shepherd's calendar of sonnets composed of Russian spambot script - a mix of lifestyle advice, gaming tips, authoritarian propaganda, bucolic fragments and apocalyptic messages. `Within Habit' is a series of prose poems collaged from numerous sources. `March and May' comprises parallel columns of verse. `Or As' is a family of 81 seventeen-syllable poems, each one an erasure of the corresponding page in a different book the poet was writing alongside Blotter. The poems are preoccupied, above all, with the passage of time, and how that passage can be differently registered or disturbed: the working day, the distorted seasons, the timestamp of a text message, the jottings of a daybook, the formal structure of a shepherd's calendar, the double exposure of a photograph, the reverse-flow of a Twitter feed.
The title, Blotter, connects these concerns, suggesting at once a police blotter, a journal, a thing for drying wet spots, and, in its painterly connotation, a way of rendering the world in a manner that is vague, blurred, or out of focus.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages
- Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date:22/02/2018
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- ISBN:9781784105303
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages
- Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date:22/02/2018
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- ISBN:9781784105303