Luke Allan
Luke Allan was born and raised in rural Northumberland and is Editor-in-chief of Oxford Poetry. His poetry and non-fiction have received the Charles Causley Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, and the Westerly Life Writing Prize, and been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. His chapbook Sweet Dreams, the Sea is forthcoming from the Poetry Society of America in 2024.
‘Death to Books’, published here in abbreviated and abridged form, won the 2024 Ivan Juritz Prize.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Death to Books
Luke Allan
‘In her concern for making a tidy death, my mum overlooked that other kind of mess which is grief, and guilt, and confusion.’
Memoir by Luke Allan.
