Luke Allan, Trinity
Course: English
Supervisor: Professor Jason Scott-Warren
Dissertation Title: The relationship between poetry and letterform (type and typefaces, but also calligraphy and the scribal tradition).
Biographical Information
Luke Allan is editor-in-chief of Oxford Poetry, the UK’s oldest poetry magazine, and former managing editor at Carcanet Press and the magazine PN Review. His poetry and non-fiction have received the Westerly Life Writing Prize, the Charles Causley International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America Fellowship, and the Mairtín Crawford Award, and been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. His work is published in the TLS, Literary Review, The Poetry Review, The White Review, the anthology New Poetries VII, and elsewhere. A chapbook of poems, Sweet Dreams, the Sea, is published by the Poetry Society of America. He has a Master’s in Creative Writing from Oxford and an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa, and is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, researching poetry and typography. He is represented by Victoria Hobbs at AM Heath.
