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Hot off the press!
In spring 2023...
Again Behold the Stars
Cinnamon Pamphlet Award winning
Poems from a Time of Siege

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Latest news...
Alex's new collection,
Naked Since Faversham,
is now available from
 
Pindrop Press!





...and here's a kind  review by Liz Bahs, 
​that gives a small  taste of what's inside:




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White Roads, Paekakariki Press, 2018
​Available from Paekakariki Press 

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Other Blackbirds, Cinnamon Press, 2016
 Available from Cinnamon Press 


































Publications 2021

Three poems - a  feature on Fokkina McDonnell's beautiful blog...click on the link and scroll down to find 'A Word in Your Ear' and 2 other poems there.

The Process - Mary Evans Picture Library pictures and poetry blog. Click on the link, as above. 



Publications 2020

Nine poems - Online here - The Punch Magazine 
Five poems - Online here - The Blue Nib 
Out of the Box -Write Out Loud anthology, 'Beyond the Storm' 

Post Office, County Cork - London Grip (online)

To Let, The Other House - Online here - Empty House Issue Three 
Rischio di Tamponamento - Bloody Amazing (anthology)
My Left Hand is a Girl - Leftie anthology
I Cut Your Hair, Bliss of Solitude - Orbis (joint second readers' prize)
Elderly Online Shopping for Essentials - Poems for a Pandemic (anthology in aid of NHS Charities)
A Zoo, Reversed - July 17th, New Bopots and Pantocracies Postcards from Malthusia 
Out of the Box - Beyond the Storm, Poems from the Covid-19 era (Write Out Loud)

Alex has also published poems in 

Print magazines

The Fenland Reed, Acumen, Envoi, Smiths Knoll, The Rialto, Brittle Star,
Obsessed with Pipework, The Interpreter's House,
Artemis, Domestic Cherry, Dream Catcher, Orbis, Corbel Stone Press Contemporary Poetry Series, Creative Countryside

Online magazines, websites, e-books 

Atrium, 10.5.19

Interview in The Sigh Press, May 2019

Ink, Sweat and Tears, 19.4.19


Amaryllis, March 2019

​morphrog 16, Jan 18

Reliquiae Supplement 2017

The Stare's Nest, September 2016  
(https://thestaresnest.com)


Montalcinonews (news article in Italian  with a filmed reading in English), July 2015: http://www.montalcinonews.com/2015/07/josephy-insegnante-e-poetessa-inglese-scrive-di-montalcino/

here/there: poetry, Issue 5, June 2015: http://here-there-poetry.co.uk

The Clearing (www.theclearingonline.org), London Grip, Coffee-House Poetry, the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine, Poetic Republic e-book 2012.

Online events


November 2015. Before I Die, found poem for Borough Market, London: blog.boroughmarket.org.uk/?tag=before-i-die

August 2015. Try to Build a House of Words, Poetry School pamphlet: campus.poetryschool.com/try-build-pamphlet-transreading-central-europe/

June - October 2015. Participating in Found Poetry Frontiers:
 
http://foundpoetryfrontiers.org,
a virtual international poetry tour. 

April/May 2015. Thirty found poems written during US National Poetry Month and displayed on PoMoSco (www.pomosco.com), a  Found Poetry Review initiative.  

Anthologies


Hippocrates Hearts (Cardiovascular Research Trust, 2018); Beautiful Dragons:  Watch the Birdie (2018), Noble Dissent (2017), A Bees Breakfast (2017), Not a Drop (2016),  Dear Watson: the Very Elements in Poetry (2015); Slow Things (The Emma Press, 2015); The Colour of Saying (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2014); Jericho (Cinnamon Press, 2013); In Terra Pax, (Cinnamon Press, 2012); New Writers, 2012; Entailing Happiness (a festschrift for Robert vas Dias, Infinity Press, 2010); A Shake of Stars (Morton Press, 2008); Goldfish (University of London, 2006), Images of Women (Arrowhead Press, 2006).
 
Competitions


McClellan Poetry Prize, 2014, first prize; The Colour of Saying, Dylan Thomas centenary anthology, 2014; Battered Moons, 2013, first prize; Poetic Republic, 2013 (top 48); New Writers, 2012 (very highly commended); Troubadour Prize top 20, 2012; Hippocrates prize 2012 (shortlisted, top 20); Cinnamon Press pamphlet competition, 2011 (shortlisted); Hippocrates Prize, 2010 (second prize NHS category; another poem shortlisted); Troubadour Prize top 20, 2010; Middlesex Full Arts Circle, 2000 (2nd prize, humourous poetry).






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