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In spring 2023... Again Behold the Stars Cinnamon Pamphlet Award winning Poems from a Time of Siege |
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: |

White Roads, Paekakariki Press, 2018
Available from Paekakariki Press
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).
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).