Sleeper Agent, by Meaghan Canavan

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

More often than not, a sleeper agent’s trigger word is mundane. Something casual, something normal. Nothing particularly special. All poets are sleeper agents. All poets have a trigger that awakens them.

Sleeper Agent questions what poetry can be, and what it takes to trigger the poet within us.This collection takes received forms and twists them into mockeries of themselves. They are pushed, and questioned, and reshaped into something not better, but different. Can the familiar be of value? Can the mundane really be turned into something of substance? And even if so, will there be meaning to any of it?

Meaghan Canavan is a writer from the Hudson Valley with a passion for books and nerd culture. She has a BA in Professional Writing, and was a 2023-2024 CT Poetry Circuit Poet. She is an avid supporter of indie bookstores and public libraries. Find her work in other places like Moss Puppy Magazine, Lavender Bones Magazine, and Broadsides Breathing Space 2023 & 2024.