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Arthur Allen is a British-Canadian poet and translator.

Arthur Allen (b. 1994) is the author of Twenty Twenty: Treatments for Cut Flowers (runner-up in the Erbacce Prize for Poetry 2021) and The Nurseryman (winner of the Eyelands Book Awards 2020 Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbook Here Birds Are (semi-finalist in the Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award 2017).

He is currently reading for a PhD in grief and semiotics at the University of Edinburgh, funded by a College Research Award from the School of Literature, Languages and Culture.

University of Oxford, MSt Creative Writing, 2015-17 (Distinction)

University of East Anglia, BA (Honours) English Literature, 2011-14 (2.1)