Blotter

Oli Hazzard’s Blotter consists of five sequences, each constructed using a different process. In "Graig Syfyrddin" notes on hillwalking in the Welsh marches – the poet’s former home – alternate with found text taken from an online walking forum. "Blotter" is a shepherd’s calendar of sonnets composed of Russian spambot script – a mix of lifestyle advice, gaming tips, authoritarian propaganda, bucolic fragments and apocalyptic messages. "Within Habit" is a series of prose poems collaged from ...