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The Illuminated Dreamer
Oz Hardwick is a York-based writer, photographer, lecturer and occasional musician. As well as two well-received poetry collections, The Kind Ghosts (2004) and Carrying Fire (2006), he has published widely in international literary journals and performed throughout Europe and the US. He has also published widely on art and literary history and is a Reader in English at Leeds Trinity University College. Oz Hardwick is a modern troubadour, incessantly travelling through place and memory, sensitive, responsive, eager to share his findings, ready to turn every chance encounter, every piercing thought into a memorable song. Read this collection and you'll soon have Oz Hardwick as one of the best poetic companions you could wish for.
Reports Come In
Reports Come In is a visceral surrealist collage of scenes from a fracturing world. Corruption, conflict and catastrophe adopt a grotesque beauty as Hardwick holds them up to the light of a bare bulb swinging in an abandoned house, revealing their shadow-stained hearts. Angry and cut with black wit, the poems present the perfect antidote to the trite narratives and vacuous three-word slogans of contemporary political discourse. "A writer who reaches places other poets can't go to. A semi genius working on his Godhood and a welcome multiple contributor to International Times." - Nick Victor
My Life as a Time Traveller
In My Life as a Time Traveller, Oz Hardwick pushes the idea of memoir into dazzlingly unexpected territories, foregrounding pattern and imaginative perception over anecdote.Oz is known for prose poems that are "relentlessly thoughtful about the nature of time," and which "play with time ... with highly compelling, disconcerting results," and has recently been described as "an Einstein of prose poetry, reconfiguring our understanding of time and space". The 18 Discrete Fragments in this poetry sequence mix past, present, and future into a heady alchemical compound that distils each moment into the gold of sand, egg yolk, or a falling autumn leaf. The Surrealist dream logic of the poems here i...
Truths & Disguises
Truths and Disguises is the first of the new Word of Mouth series for bluechrome, that aims to introduce new poetic voices from around the UK. This time around, Oz Hardwick has selected the eight best poets that he knows of that are yet to have a first collection published, and gives them the opportunity to showcase their talents. Truths and Disguises is an excellent introduction to a selection of poets that we are quite sure you will hear a lot more from in the coming years.
Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed
"This slim guide might be The Schoolboys' Rebellion because, as the writer laments, the future's not how the bubble-gum cards once described it. Hardwick's haunting threnodies for the world reek with sorrow at the present age and return you to childhood when a time machine could still be built, and an imagined future was still possible. In his textual steppingstones to once imagined futures and beleaguered pasts, billionaires vainly "stroke the tail of space" while the writer tries to stem Collapse. Already, meaning has fled and comforts have gone. But the here and now is what counts, he seems to say, and when our eyes are taken off what really matters then evolution will find its own soluti...
A Census of Preconceptions
Oz Hardwick lives in York, England. He is a poet, photographer, musician, and academic, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. He has published nine full collections and chapbooks, including Learning to Have Lost (Canberra: IPSI, 2018) which won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for poetry, and most recently the prose poetry sequence Wolf Planet (Clevedon: Hedgehog, 2020). He has also edited or co-edited several anthologies, including The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Scarborough: Valley Press, 2019) with Anne Caldwell. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University.
Learning to Have Lost
Oz Hardwick's collection of prose poems Learning to have lost the passing of time, memory, old age, illness, death and how these resonate and move within and around each other . True to form, Hardwick achieves a sense of a musical refrain and rhythm underpinning and connecting this absorbing collection. While the subject matter is weighty and the pain from the litany of loss candidly expressed, a resolute humour asserts itself throughout that is sometimes sinister, sometimes surreal, often surprising and enormously engaging.
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide both writer and reader, and to address why this form is so well suited to the early twenty-first century. With discussion of both classic and less well- known writers, the essays both illuminate prose poetry’s distinctive features and explore how this "outsider" form can offer a unique way of viewing and describing the uncertainties and instabilities which shape our identities and our relationships with our surroundings in the early twenty-first century. Combining insights on the theory and practice of prose poetry, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice offers a timely and valuable contribution to the development of the form, and its appreciation amongst practitioners and scholars alike. Largely approached from a practitioner perspective, this collection provides vivid snapshots of contemporary debates within the prose poetry field while actively contributing to the poetics and craft of the form.
The Ringmasters Apprentice
From northern rail sifings to the edges of the Otherworld, Oz Hardwick's latest collection haunts boundaries and blurs borders.
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide both writer and reader, and to address why this form is so well suited to the early twenty-first century. With discussion of both classic and less well- known writers, the essays both illuminate prose poetry’s distinctive features and explore how this "outsider" form can offer a unique way of viewing and describing the uncertainties and instabilities which shape our identities and our relationships with our surroundings in the early twenty-first century. Combining insights on the theory and practice of prose poetry, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice offers a timely and valuable contribution to the development of the form, and its appreciation amongst practitioners and scholars alike. Largely approached from a practitioner perspective, this collection provides vivid snapshots of contemporary debates within the prose poetry field while actively contributing to the poetics and craft of the form.
