Office Poems by Nathan Nicolau

A varied but thematically concise work of contemporary poetry, Office Poems by Nathan Nicolau mixes together dreamlike verse with an undercurrent of sardonic social awareness. Nicolau’s emotive but playful verse and prose poetry guide the reader through original, ironic, and deeply felt contemplations about the fabric of everyday life – from mundane tasks to the nature of celebrity. At times, the poetry veers into prose reformatted into verse, but the mixture of humor and intellectual inquiry gives the collection a comfortably breezy flair, demonstrating the poet’s total control over his vision. Written with straightforward but layered language, Nicolau’s collection of poetic daydreams offers something new to uncover with repeated reads.