Poems Without Irony
This first collection is full of experiments with language, form and theme. It asks to be read aloud, it surprises the voice and ear. Simplicity is seduced by extravagance, and vice versa.
About the author
Alex Wong was born in London and now lives in Cambridge, where he studied English literature. He received a doctoral degree for his work on Renaissance English and Latin poetry, and has published a number of critical essays. For Carcanet he has edited the "Selected Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne" (2015), and some of his poems were included in the anthology "New Poetries VI", published by Carcanet in the same year. He is currently a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge.