After the Hatching Oven

by David Alexander

After the Hatching Oven scrutinizes the world of a most unlikely hero: the common chicken. We are launched into their evolution as a domesticated species; their place in history, pop culture and industrial agriculture; their exploitation and their liberation. These poems relish in the mastery of language and intensity by which Alexander has thought his way into the very cells of his subjects through riffs on ad campaigns, news stores, public health advisories, poems, movies and self-translations.

96 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2018

About the author

David Alexander is the author of After the Hatching Oven, forthcoming from Nightwood Editions in April 2018, and the chapbooks Modern Warfare (Anstruther Press) and Chicken Scratch (Puddles of Sky Press). His work has been shortlisted for The Walrus Poetry Prize (2014), Arc Poem of the Year (2014), FreeFall Magazine Annual Poetry Contest (2016), and the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award (2016). His poems have appeared in Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, The Puritan, The Rusty Toque, Poetry is Dead, subTerrain, The Humber Literary Review, and other journals and magazines.

Reviews

[Brian MacAskill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really rather fascinating. I loved "Undercover Investigators".

[John Stiles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Revenge of the Battery Hen?
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