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In his latest book, award-winning poet Alex Vellis explores the themes of futility, loss and working-class trauma through three unique characters.
Inspired by an absent father, losing people to drugs and drug related deaths, and the barriers that can be faced and overcome by working class people, Alex explores the mundane, the futile, and the daily stresses in our lives.
“I spoke to a man in Paris who showed me a ‘day in the life’ piece of short fiction he had written, and he encouraged me to do the same. From there, I developed the entire idea of ‘I saw a bird once’. Also, after having worked on my MA, with a focus on the wonder in the mundane, I became hooked on the idea of futility in the everyday.”
