In Sherbert Lake, middle-class aspirations mask currents of cruelty and bigotry — but even the rulers can't stop the creep of unseen forces, and dread stirs under their feet.

Elsewhere, an upper-middle class family grapples with cycles of addiction and abuse that threaten to atomize their bonds and their legacy entirely. And when a schoolgirl befriends an older divorcee, their growing intimacy draws her family's attention.

In Hail, The Invisible Watchman, Alexandra Oliver conjures out of eerie atmospheres the chilling social dilemmas of our time. (From Bilbioasis)

Alexandra Oliver is a Vancouver-born Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway. She is also the author of the poetry collections Let the Empire Down and and a chapbook called On the Oven Sits a Maiden. Oliver, who got her start as a slam poet in the 1990s, has performed her work for CBC Radio and NPR, as well as at the National Poetry Slam and many festivals and conferences.