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. My work has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, HEAT, Island, Griffith Review, and Cordite, among other publications.

From 2016-2025, I produced the podcast Poetry Says, which includes interviews with over 120 poets from Australia and overseas.

Contact me here.


PUBLICATIONS


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.