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He Shows Me Where
He Shows Me Where
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In her debut poetry collection, He Shows Me Where, Alexandra Strnad explores the impact of war, and of totalitarian regimes, on her family’s lives, as well as challenges faced in recent times: poverty, natural disaster, global conflict, and the impact of modern plagues.
Alexandra read English at Cambridge, and Creative Writing at Oxford (where she graduated with Distinction). Her work includes the pamphlets H is for Hadeda, published by Poetry Salzburg in 2017, and Pilgrims, published by Eyewear in 2019, as well as numerous works in leading journals. She won the Jane Martin Poetry Prize in 2014. She is a Czech and British national, currently living between East Africa, Prague, the Middle East, and the Scottish Borders.
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