Between Two Windows

Hazzard Oli

"In Between Two Windows", his first book of poems, Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas, sonnets and pantoums stray palindromes, mirrored poems, anagrams, allusions and curiosities. His lyrics and satires dance in the spaces that open up between intention and expression, the moment when the horse attempts to throw its rider.

About the Author

Oli Hazzard was born in Bristol in 1986, and studied English at University College London and the University of Bristol. He is currently researching John Ashbery's poetry at the University of Oxford. Oli Hazzard's poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies including "The Forward Book of Poetry" 2010, "Best British Poetry" 2011, "The Salt Book of Younger Poets" and "New Poetries V" (Carcanet, 2011).

Reviews

"Oli Hazzard brilliantly conveys the experience of experiencing; although his observations are hyper-real, he seems always to be questioning – and to be making us question – whether they are sufficiently 'like'... His work perfectly exemplifies Touchstone's saying that the truest poetry is the most feigning" – Jane Griffiths

"Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive, 'Between Two Windows' is a brilliant first collection by one of the brightest young stars in the poetic firmament" – Mark Ford

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