https://www.arthurallenpoet.com/home daily 0.75 2021-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/1624728107075-FVK365OWDZYETMH2JJWO/thumbnail_image0.jpg Home - 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) https://www.arthurallenpoet.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/21887ec3-3c0f-44cc-99d0-183373f1013e/68ba3c21-8752-4ede-9bdf-fc698cb612ce+2.jpg https://www.arthurallenpoet.com/about daily 1.0 2026-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/1624728404218-G6NYT2GPJM6S45IZNYP6/thumbnail_image0.jpg About - Arthur Allen (b. 1994) is the author of Some Things I Do Not Know, published by Shearsman Books in 2026. His other work includes Twenty Twenty: Treatments for Cut Flowers (runner-up, Erbacce Prize for Poetry 2021), The Nurseryman (winner, Eyelands Book Awards 2019 Poetry Prize), and the chapbook Here Birds Are (semi-finalist in the Claudia Emerson Poetry Award 2016). Arthur’s poem ‘Ratlets’ appeared in the 2025 anthology Vocal Inhabitants from Strange Region Press, and ‘Buzzcut’ was included in the New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology for 2024. His poem ‘Some things I do not know’ was chosen as a finalist in the Snowbound Chapbook Award 2023, and shortlisted in Wigtown’s Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2023, and the 2023 Live Canon Poetry Competition. In 2022, Arthur was included on the prestigious long-list for The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition, selected out of 17,800 entries. He was long-listed by Glyn Maxwell for the AUB International Poetry Prize 2022, and his poem ‘Unhomely Places’ appears in Responses to Pale Blue Dot by Voyager 1, the 2022 anthology in a series from Pilot Press responding to works of art made during the AIDS crisis. Arthur was specially commended by Owen Sheers in the Wells Festival of Literature 2021 Open Poetry Competition, chosen by the Black Mountain Press as one of The 64, Best Poets of 2019 and won third prize in the Ambit Annual Poetry Competition 2018. He is the only English translator of Maria Wine, forgotten Swedish author of poetry books that were her ‘spiritual diaries’. Arthur holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, funded by a College Research Award from their School of Literature, Languages and Culture, with focus on grief and semiotics. He works as a bookseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/5325fa62-4a11-4be7-b823-6dcdd913589d/74E75E04-E687-438F-831D-5CF85CBE32D4.jpg About - Some Things I Do Not Know ‘I do not know how no resource of love could keep you. ’ Order now from Shearsman Books. https://www.arthurallenpoet.com/poetry daily 0.75 2026-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/9c39baf5-f31a-4be7-a2c5-2874aff7f7a7/C7B17B6F-827A-438E-B82F-957DC4F35435_1_201_a.jpeg Poetry Twenty Twenty: Treatments for Cut Flowers ‘I want to say right away that Treatment for Cut Flowers is a truly wonderful book. Deeply moving, beautifully written and heart-breaking. I cannot get over it... I began it this morning and I have lived with it all afternoon and all night. It is a remarkable book, the best book of poetry I have read for a long time and I have been reading a lot of poetry lately, giving up on novels and short stories. I kept marking with a pencil so many pages in the top left-hand corner. It is I think one of the most tender and loving and truthful books I have read for a long time.’ — Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient Chosen out of 12,000 entries in the Erbacce Prize for Poetry. Finalist in the Malahat Review Open Season Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted for the 2021 Jane Martin Poetry Prize. Longlisted for the Dead Cat Poetry Prize 2021. Highly commended in the Wells Festival of Literature Prize 2021. Read more on the Poetry and Covid website, which fosters and supports public conversation about poetry as a response to Covid-19. Signed copies available from Argonaut Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/d5a8e353-ea8a-4b16-acd3-7dc28259d00b/IMG20210906100534.jpeg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/1624800204639-VX0POTSGJF0K6S4J5V5V/91fTo3In6bL.jpg Poetry - The Nurseryman ‘An extraordinary debut that combines the awed wonder of early seafarers with a freshness and buoyancy that is essentially 21st century. Alternating between the late sixteenth century ‘FRAGMENTARY records of a Roote Gatherer, practiced of alchemical craft & in the spiritual use of fruit trees…’, lyrical meditations on the beauty of nature, and notes on the marvels encountered during the voyage, The Nurseryman takes us on a startlingly original odyssey that is at once an homage to the past as well as being a prescient ‘fable for the present.’ Jenny Lewis, author of Gilgamesh Retold Longlisted, the Welsh International Poetry Book Award 2020. Winner, the Eyelands Book Awards Poetry Prize 2019. Third Place, Charter Oak Award for Best Historical 2019. The Voyage of a Novel in Verse: An Interview with Arthur Allen. Buy it here from Kernpunkt Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d748bc5b0d5e497ba6cc28/1624800294235-G3GEOOCH3OS0V2VRRIVO/birds-hires-FINAL-1320x2024-2.jpg Poetry Here Birds Are ‘I have not read anything like this, so intimate and also vast. These are wonderful poems, truly moving and beautifully written, with a great variousness in them.’ - Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient Semi-finalist, the Claudia Emerson Chapbook Award 2016. Highly-commended, the Fools for Poetry Chapbook Competition 2016. Poems from the pamphlet were selected as finalists for the Phyllis Smart-Young Prize 2017 and the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize 2017, and long-listed for the Canberra International Poetry Prize. 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