Alanis Morissette by Jake Wild Hall is a sprawling, tender, and formally inventive collection that weaves fatherhood, friendship, grief, and masculinity into a shifting, polyphonic tapestry. The poems resist singular narrative arcs, instead offering refrains, fragments, and abrupt tonal pivots that echo the dislocation of memory and the loops of online life. Hall balances absurdism and sincerity with remarkable control, moving between the domestic and the digital, the sacred and the profane. What emerges is a lyric mode that is generous, self-questioning, and defiantly alive to the emotional contradictions of contemporary manhood.

Jake Wild Hall is an award-winning poet and one half of Bad Betty Press. He has performed on BBC Radio and at festivals and literary events across the UK. He is a multiple slam champion, and his work has been published in magazines, anthologies, and online journals. He is the author of two pamphlets: Solomon's World, which was longlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Pamphlet, and Blank.He has worked with partners including Penguin, Apples and Snakes, Writing East Midlands, Derby Poetry Festival, and Pearson. He has also been a guest tutor at Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham, King's College London, the University of Lincoln, and others.This is his debut collection.