Alexandra Davis lives in Suffolk with her husband and four sons and teaches English. Her poems have appeared in Agenda, Artemis and Emma Press anthologies.
 www.alexandrapoet.wordpress.co.uk.

Winner of the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize in 2018
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​SPROUTS ​

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Rebecca Goss writes:
"Alexandra Davis takes a magnifying glass to familial encounters, describing what she sees there with an honest and unsentimental eye. Her poems explore the fragility of being human, recognising the affection and hurt we can inflict upon each other, but there is such wiseness here, such tender detail, it left me feeling I had read something affirming, and hopeful."

'Sprouts'
​​ISBN: 978-1-907435-46-1 
Published September 2017
24 poems
Perfect-bound paperback
​36 pages ​15cm wide x 21cm tall

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TORCHES AND SPARKS
responses to the poetry of the First World War​

​A critical appreciation of the poems of the WWI war poets  Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Ivor Gurney, Laurence Binyon, Edward Thomas and Edgar Wallace. The second half of the book includes poems written by Alexandra Davis in response to them.

Owing        (Extract)
for Wilfred Owen 1893-1918
 
The spirit is our vulnerable spot,
hidden in rough-lived grass, and seldom seen.
Exposed to shocks beyond the common realm,
unable to return to somewhere lost,
you sought out lines that claimed new territory.  
The landscape of a looted life, made vivid
by war-doomed youth, paints feelings deeply crimson
among the muted meadows of our minds,
finds that same tender place of pain and pity.
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©Alexandra Davis
(From 'Torches and Sparks')

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TORCHES AND SPARK
​ISBN: 978-1-907435-71-3
Published September 2018
60 pages of prose and poems
perfect-bound paperback
15cm wide x 21cm tall

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