Alice Allan

I'm a freelance writer, editor and proofreader based in Melbourne.


ABOUT ME


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I’m a writer and editor based in Melbourne, Australia. I produce the podcast Poetry Says.

My poems have appeared in Rabbit, Griffith Review, Southerly, Australian Book Review, Westerly and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, and shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize.


WRITING


THE EMPTY SHOW

Published by Rabbit Poets, 2019. Available here.

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Commended in the 2019 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry.

Drawing influence from her omnivorous reading, Alice infuses word collages and broken fields of type with lyric feeling. In this debut collection she has curated poems that reflect conditions of lostness. She observes and resists the desire to make logical conclusions, opting instead for phrases, images and voices of anachronism and surprise.

— Bonny Cassidy


BLANKS

Published by Slow Loris, 2019. Available here.

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A chapbook about Jane Kenyon, bees, maternal ambivalence and the liminal space between romantic love and friendship. 


PODCAST


POETRY SAYS

Interviews with poets from Australia, and sometimes elsewhere, mixed with other poetry-based musings. Listen here.