Strokes of Light

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..

About the Author

Lucy Alexander is a writer and poet. She works from a studio at Gorman + Ainslie Arts Centre. In 2019 she was an ACT Writers HardCopy non-fiction stream participant for her quirky manuscript Calling Your Dog. She also received an ArtsACT grant to be mentored by Isobelle Carmody for her work of fiction Mela’s Aqueduct in collaboration with digital artist Paul Summerfield. Her poems have recently appeared in Cordite and Meniscus, and reviews in Verity La. She lives in a happy menagerie with her four kids and loving husband.