Alex Stone is an artist, inventor, poet, sculptor, weathervane-maker and writer based on Te Motu Ara-i-Roa, Waiheke Island, 12 nautical miles into the morning sun from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland city in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Alex's writing spans feature journalism, newspaper columns, performance poetry, creative short story writing, novels and non-fiction works. He has either won, been runner-up or short-listed in 10 New Zealand literary awards and one international award for memoir.
In New Zealand libraries you'll find jesus of the credit cards, a collection of short stories, Stopped & Expounding, poems and pictures, and Taken, the first novel ever written in first-person Elephant.
Stone comments: 'The poem reflects on tragic news. A friend, talking in an open-plan office to his fiancée on her cellphone. She was driving to Wellington. The phone call was cut short. Later we learned that she was killed in a head-on collision on SH1, near Hunterville.'
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