The work of Ivy Alvarez is concerned with events from everyday life, posing poignant questions about humankind and existence. —Kim Ki-taek
Ivy Alvarez is the author of Disturbance (Seren Books).Both Literature Wales and the Australia Council for the Arts awarded her grants towards the writing of her second collection.
"I was obsessed with the idea of writing about this crime from multiple perspectives."
Read an interview about her forthcoming book here.
Here's a striking new voice to accompany us from Hades to Tasmania, from myth to mother. —WN Herbert
Her first poetry collection, Mortal, examines the relationship between Dee and Seph — modern-day reinventions of Demeter and Persephone — and how the spectre of breast cancer affects them.