Poems Without Irony by Alex Wong Nine Arches Press They take the form of

They take the form of songs

always travelling until it breaks and is gone

having already succumbed to his infinite charms

The present volume of nearly 300 poems seeks to redress the balance

Tomas Venclova

Poems Without Irony by Alex Wong Nine Arches Press They take the form ofShortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017 Shortlisted for The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2017 Poems without Irony is Alex Wongs 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