An intelligent collection that uses economical language across a variety of subjects. These are poems that repay more than one reading.
Alex’s poems have won awards such as the MacLellan Prize 2014 and the Battered Moons Prize 2013. She was highly commended in the Rialto/RSPB nature poetry competition 2014, and won second prize in the Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, 2010.