Let the Empire Down

5+ city tour across United States Co-op available Is connected to: the West Chester Poetry Conference (Kim Bridgford, Philadelphia); Taylor Mali in NYC (organizer of the Urbana Slam & the Page Meets Stage Series); Bob Holman, NYC, owner of the Bowery Poetry Club; Jeffrey McDaniel, NYC poet, connected to Sarah Lawrence; Anna M. Evans/Quincy Lehr of the Carmine St. Metrics reading series/The Raintown Review; in LA to Timothy Steele, Leslie Monsour, and Julie Kane (poet laureate of LA); in Seattle, Lana Hechtman Ayers, who would organize a reading, Daemond Arrindel, organizer of the Seattle Slam, Elizabeth Austen (NPR), Jeremy Richards (also radio), and visual artist Hanita Schwartz. Again, we have contact information for all of them. National radio campaign (targeting NPR/The Writer's Almanac/Tell Me More, plus anyone AO's ever spoken with on-air) National print campaign targeting Poetry, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Poets & Writers, Poetry Show, Parnassus, Slate, NPR.org/David Orr; again will make shameless use of AO's connections Possible promotional videos through her film connections Print campaign will also target poetry bloggers/reviewers Promotion through www.alexandraoliver.ca Social media campaign with focus on poetry performance videos/YouTube Goodreads giveaways Promotional broadsides

Larger-than-life lyrics, rich in wit and tinged with woe, examine what it means to alternately own and defy one's past.In her second book, Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of Canada to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals--on the streets, by rivers, in museums, on playgrounds, in their own homes, in the ill-starred town of Lockerbie--Oliver reflects on issues of exile, memory and identity, while traveling back into her own past.