Alex Wharton is a former Children's Laureate Wales, and an award-winning writer and performer of poetry for adults and children. His first book of poetry for children, Daydreams and Jellybeans, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of The Year Award 2022, the North Somerset Teacher’s Book Awards, The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (LOLLIES) and was a National Poetry Day Recommended Read.Alex won the Rising Stars Wales Award in 2020 and has collaborated with key national organisations such as Cadw, Ballet Cymru, Welsh Government and the British Council,and has also appeared at the Hay Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.Alex’s second and third collections of poetry Doughnuts, Thieves and Chimpanzees and Red Sky at Night: A Poet’s Delight were published in 2023 and 2024.
