Lorem Ipsum
Published on 26. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-913513-09-2 (ISBN)
Description
Lorem Ipsum, the debut novel from poet Oli Hazzard, consists of a single, 50,000-word sentence. An epistolary fiction addressed to an unidentified email recipient, the novel is modelled after the Japanese prose genre of the zuihitsu, which means 'following the brush'.
This playful, disruptive and digressive novel is written out of and towards a moment of crisis in the ordinary, in which the experience of attention has changed entirely.
Lorem Ipsum is also an intimate, singular exploration of being a parent and a child, of dreams, work, fantasies, reading, happiness, secrets, memory, protest, repetition, intergenerational conflict, and the forms of community which appear or disappear based on how we conceive of 'shared time'. It is a book about the foundations upon which we build our lives, and what happens when they are shaken.
This playful, disruptive and digressive novel is written out of and towards a moment of crisis in the ordinary, in which the experience of attention has changed entirely.
Lorem Ipsum is also an intimate, singular exploration of being a parent and a child, of dreams, work, fantasies, reading, happiness, secrets, memory, protest, repetition, intergenerational conflict, and the forms of community which appear or disappear based on how we conceive of 'shared time'. It is a book about the foundations upon which we build our lives, and what happens when they are shaken.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 119 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
174 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913513-09-2 (9781913513092)
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Person
Oli Hazzard was born in Bristol in 1986. He is the author of two collections of poems: Between Two Windows(Carcanet, 2012), which received the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and an Eric Gregory Award, and was a book of the year in the Guardian, TLS, and Financial Times; and Blotter (Carcanet, 2018). He has also written a book of literary criticism, John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras (Oxford University Press, 2018). His poems, criticism and fiction have appeared in publications including Harper's, The White Review, Boston Review, Frieze, Music & Literature, The Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian. He lives in Edinburgh and teaches at the University of St Andrews.