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Born: Established: 1975 Bowral, Mittagong - Bowral area, Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Babushka i "And when he laid eyes on her", Lucy Alexander , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 11 no. 2 2023; (p. 12)
1 Walking by Lake Ginninderra Lucy Alexander , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Authora Australis , no. 7 2023;
1 All My Troubles i "And we sit in the library with books I feel I used to own", Lucy Alexander , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 11 no. 2 2021; (p. 117)
1 This Is How I Sleep i "They tell me to divert her. To say the unexpected. I am good at that. So,", Lucy Alexander , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 11 no. 2 2021; (p. 116)
1 Erosion i "It is not", Lucy Alexander , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 11 no. 2 2021; (p. 116)
1 1 y separately published work icon Strokes of Light Lucy Alexander , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2020 19691907 2020 selected work poetry

'Are those stars walking on a million tiny feet across the pebbled beachey sky? Do they dare into the sea with its tidal pull rhythm?'

'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, deeply known, and the utterly recondite; between the earth-bound registers of vegetables and household pets, to the elemental registers of water, air, earth and fire, in phrasing that is often grammatically strange, imagistically unexpected. 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. – Jen Webb

'At the time of writing, Nature is shaking us all by the shoulders, demanding that we reconsider our relationships with the world we briefly inhabit. In Strokes of Light, Lucy Alexander viscerally acknowledges “the slippery world” through which we pass, and the artificiality of distinctions between human and Nature, self and other, “in here” and “out there.” Always look through the crack between the door and its jamb before you open it, cautions an early poem, but this collection emphatically stresses that there is little point in so tentative an action, for already Nature – with all its birds, bushes, beasts and babies – has taken up residence in even our most private domestic spaces. Striking in their unsentimental animism, these are poems for our time; poems that call out your name; poems that hail the wind, but do not follow its instructions. — Oz Hardwick'

1 Pinch i "Never relative the ones you love, never love the ones you study, never open", Lucy Alexander , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 24 no. 1 2020;
1 Skull i "Just beyond your sideways glance there are always suspended constellations.", Lucy Alexander , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 24 no. 1 2020;
1 Rooster i "Perhaps the rooster crows —", Lucy Alexander , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 22 March vol. 30 no. 6 2020;
1 Floodplain i "The floodplain is full of the black earth we are made of. All of the world’s particles pass through this zone: yours,", Lucy Alexander , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 22 March vol. 30 no. 6 2020;
1 Crow i "I hail the wind. Before I transformed from a daughter – we were always of the egg. Bluer than the lake, a few", Lucy Alexander , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 95 2020;
1 Swift i "In a cup made for my flesh she stopped and left a beaky blemish. I’ve", Lucy Alexander , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 7 no. 2 2019;
1 Strokes of Light i "Here the brushstrokes are all downwards, like rain that comes in as thick", Lucy Alexander , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 7 no. 2 2019; In Your Hands 2020; (p. 9)
1 Writing Backwards : Susan Hawthorne's Dark Matters Lucy Alexander , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , July 2019;

— Review of Dark Matters Susan Hawthorne , 2017 single work novel
1 Naked Song i "My mother was a currawong", Lucy Alexander , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 110)
1 Reading in an Undiscovered Library : Pulse – Prose Poems as Collaboration Lucy Alexander , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: Verity La , June 2017;

— Review of Pulse : Prose Poems 2016 anthology poetry
1 Maintaining the Strange Fire : David Stavanger’s The Special and Rob Walker’s Tropeland Lucy Alexander , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2015;

— Review of The Special David Stavanger , 2014 selected work poetry ; Tropeland Rob Walker , 2015 selected work poetry
1 Panache and Bravado and Extraordinary Luminosity : Omar Musa’s Parang and Judy Johnson’s Stone, Scar, Air, Water Lucy Alexander , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , July 2014;

— Review of Parang Omar Musa , 2013 selected work poetry ; Stone Scar Air Water Judy Johnson , 2013 selected work poetry
1 An Incredible Sense of Trust : Nathan Curnow and Kevin Brophy's Radar Lucy Alexander , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2013;

— Review of Radar Nathan Curnow , Kevin Brophy , 2012 selected work poetry
1 Poems Coming in Fast : Jill Jones’ Ash Is Here, So Are Stars Lucy Alexander , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2013;

— Review of Ash Is Here, So are Stars Jill Jones , 2012 selected work poetry
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