<p>Poems without Irony is Alex Wong's first collection. In subject, tone and form it ranges widely. The book as a whole does not address any one paticular theme, but much of it is concerned with the experience of particularity, with the bounds of moral calculation, and with the need for precision ? of thought and of speech ? as an aim or obligation. Tensions between the 'natural' and the artificial, intention and expression, good faith and bad, a...