Alex Wylie was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1980, to mixed English and Maltese parents. He attended the Universities of Central Lancashire and Durham before coming to Queen’s to read for a doctorate in modern and contemporary poetry. He has poems forthcoming in
Stand and has been published in
Agenda’s ‘Broadsheet Poets’ feature. He also has poems forthcoming in the Queen’s University anthology
Tide Lines. The following poems were recorded at the St Patrick's Eve Poetry Reading at the Heaney Centre on 16 March 2007.