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Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Shortlisted for The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2017. Poems without Irony is Alex Wong s first collection. In subject, tone and form it ranges widely. The book as a whole does not address any one paticular theme, but much of it is concerned with the experience of particularity, with the bounds of moral calculation, and with the need for precision of thought and of speech as an aim or obligation. Tensions between the natural and the artificial, intention and expression, good faith and bad, are recurrently felt as the poems negotiate their various kinds of ambivalence. The style is governed by a desire for simplicity almost equal to the lure of extravagance, and by the tendency of its subtly differentiated voices towards an elusive playfulness in the face of serious matters. The poems are designed to be read aloud, or at least using the mouth . Wong s patient and sympathetic listening to the sounds of English poetry in all periods has enriched the patterns of his own. The poems, therefore, enfold many memories of earlier styles revived, or still vital, but also gaining new tonal energy in a functional strangeness.
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'Possesses brilliant linguistic finesse.' --David Morley
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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.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd
- Publication date2016
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- ISBN 13 9781784103040
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