Alexandra Oliver zooms in on the inertias, anxieties, comedies, cruelties, and epiphanies of domestic life. Oliver's poems, which she describes as 'text-based home movies,' unveil a cinematic vision of suburbia at once comical and poignant: framed to renew our curiosity in the mundane and pressing rhyme and metre to their utmost, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway is a five-star performance from Canada's new formalist sensation..

Poems.