Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard The Very Selected A very valuable book indeed

A very valuable book indeed

and the memories they evoke

like the wide sea or the unfolding corridor in the reverse’s images

to the homeless ‘no food or water

Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard The Very Selected A very valuable book indeedOli Hazzard's third collection emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore from boredom', as memorypersonal, familial, social, historicaland 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. The title, borrowed