Sleepers Awake

"'Sleepers awake,' Oli Hazzard's third collection of poetry, emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore / from boredom,' as memory -- 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 is here too, alongside its unexpected forms of potential"