Alex Richardson's poems hover between domesticity and wildness, duty and whimsy, contentment and longing, documentation and invention. They will provide experienced readers with highly nuanced pleasures, and they will impress newcomers to contemporary poetry with their initial delights.
Gilbert Allen, author of Driving to Distraction
To write of love's impossibility is, in many ways, a piece of cake. The poet is a beautiful loser, the poems glamorous with sadness. In Porch Night on Walnut Street, Alex Richardson takes on a subject more complex and various: an imperfect happiness. In...

Presenting practical solutions for parents, this book provides information on the foods they feed their children to show how nutrition affects behaviour and learning. Sorting out food fact from food myth, it includes meal plans and recipes, along with guid