ARGONAUT BOOKS

America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency. His final collection Turn Up the Ocean examines with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Reviews He belongs to that wagon-circle of American poets who believe in a "common reader"…Hoagland is a poet of a ragged, half-satirical, half-lyrical intensity. If Billy Collins is Updike, Hoagland is Salinger, or perhaps Holden...Read More