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Lucy Alexander

I love to arrange words.

Sometimes this means poetry. Sometimes its stories. Writing is my thing. I have a new book – ‘Strokes of Light’.

“The formal structures of the poems exploit the glorious tension of language: the mystery and witchiness of section 1 trapped within the four walls of the prose poem; the childpoems filled with line or stanza breaks that mirror the half-uttered memories. This is a deeply empathic collection that finds surprise and delight in the most quotidian of places; that respects the pulse and breath of everyday life.”

Dr Jen Webb, May 2020
Strokes of Light – Book of Poems

Pod Link

Here is a link to a podcast I did recently with the lovely Mr. Ken Ward on his fabulous ‘What I Don’t Talk About @ Barbecues’ where we got into the nitty gritty of the lyric impulse, the new normal post-Covid and what I’m really sure about…so really, happy to talk about most of this…

by poemation May 20, 2020May 20, 2020
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New Book of Poetry ‘Strokes of Light’ to be released 25th May 2020.

Lucy Alexander’s new collection is suffused with subtle observations of nature, childhood, and memory. In imagery loaded with both immediacy and resonance, each ‘stroke’of these luminous poems invokes the sense that great and shifting worlds are coiled within even the smallest of things. Lucy Alexander conjures up a world that shivers between the deeply familiar,…

by poemation May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
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New Book of Poetry – ‘Strokes of Light’

The poems are preoccupied with splitting the ordinary open to reveal what’s extraordinary under the surface. I say ‘the poems’ because they seem to take me there, wherever there is. Under the ordinary experience of having your own children in the world is the absolute gobsmackery that they exist at all. Under the ordinary workings…

by poemation May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
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Blogs I Follow

  • Lovers of Philosophy
  • Short Prose
  • POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
  • It's a Dog's Life
  • Blog Writing Profits
  • SHINE OF A LUCID BEING
  • aworldofdaydreams
  • Shreya Vikram
  • THE CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
  • Matthew Toffolo's Blog
  • Raimey Gallant
  • Wise & Shine
  • ED A. MURRAY
  • simplisticInsights
  • Baffy Basics
  • Neil Womack
  • Inkygirl: An Illustrated Guide For Writers
  • Iceland Writers Retreat
  • Australian Writers' Centre
  • Verity La Reviews
  • Feed The Writers
  • Soft Copy – Fiction
  • Poetry – New Shoots Anthology
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Lovers of Philosophy

The love lives of continental philosophers

Short Prose

Poetry and Prose by Gabriela Marie Milton #1 Amazon Bestselling Poet & Editor, Award Winning Author, Pushcart Prize Nominee

POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

It's a Dog's Life

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx

Blog Writing Profits

SHINE OF A LUCID BEING

Astral Lucid Music - Philosophy On Life, The Universe And Everything...

aworldofdaydreams

Shreya Vikram

THE CHRONICLES OF HISTORY

READING INTO THE PAST .....

Matthew Toffolo's Blog

Sports and Movie comments and opinions

Raimey Gallant

Wise & Shine

A community for writers & readers

ED A. MURRAY

Author | Freelance Writer | Blogger

simplisticInsights

Simple made easy! psychology love feeling emotion thought behaviour success strategy

Baffy Basics

Sometimes writing poems let's me forget about the huge sums of debt I'm accumulating while at college

Neil Womack

Poetry

Inkygirl: An Illustrated Guide For Writers

Offical site for Lucy Alexander - Author & Poet

Iceland Writers Retreat

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Australian Writers' Centre

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