Alex Earnest

Sick-Silly-Desperate Alex Earnest

"Sick-Silly-Desperate" is a debut poetry collection focused on the journey from despair to love. From pain to faith. From anxiety to peace. The collection focuses on emotion and movement, and helps the reader to dive into the darkest parts of life and come out the other side still believing in the good. "All it takes is hope to trust
The change that comes may bring us love
And everyone is worthy of
The chance to grow from two to one"
-from the poem 'How could you live again?' Alex takes you on his own journey through the dark to the light in four parts: 1. Looking in The Mirror
2. Love (or something like it)
3. Vicious Cycles
4. New Leaf, Same Tree The poems take you up into the heights of ecstatic love, plunge you down into the miseries of isolation and grief, then finds its way back to love again, rediscovering it in the self and all the cycles it encompasses. And offers the chance for you to discover that love in your self too.