Rachael Allen
Rachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland (2019) and God Complex (2024). She was the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award and an Eric Gregory Award. She was born in Cornwall and works as an editor and lecturer in London.
Rachael Allen on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Doing the Work
Rachael Allen
‘We hated the tourists, but they were the reason we had jobs.’
Rachael Allen on working in a fish and chip shop in Cornwall.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Maureen N. McLane in Conversation
Maureen N. McLane & Rachael Allen
Granta’s poetry editor Rachael Allen talks to Maureen N. McLane about ecology, lyric authority, and balancing poetry with criticism.
In Conversation | Issue 126
Interview
Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen
‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’
In Conversation | Issue 126
Lindsey Hilsum | Podcast
Lindsey Hilsum & Rachael Allen
Lindsey Hilsum on Libya, her time in Rwanda and how countries can repair in the aftermath of war.
In Conversation | Issue 126
Interview: Laurence Hamburger
Laurence Hamburger & Rachael Allen
Frozen Chicken Train Wreck is a book of reproduced tabloid posters from daily newspapers – The...
In Conversation | Issue 126
Helen Mort | Interview
Helen Mort & Rachael Allen
‘I think there’s something seductive and liberating about the way you can create shadowy characters in a poem.’
In Conversation | Issue 126
Ellen Bryant Voigt | Interview
Ellen Bryant Voigt & Rachael Allen
‘I don’t think of music and narrative as being mutually exclusive – some of my poems ARE narrative, and are as ‘sound-driven’ as the lyrics.’
In Conversation | Issue 126
Juan Pablo Villalobos | Podcast
Juan Pablo Villalobos & Rachael Allen
Juan Pablo Villalobos on class struggle in Mexico, parodying Mexican identity and the difficulty of translation.
In Conversation | Issue 126
Robert Macfarlane | Podcast
Robert Macfarlane & Rachael Allen
‘When you're dealing with a geological context, its age exceeds your knowing, exceeds your comprehension. Deep time is dizzying and vertiginous.’
In Conversation | Issue 126
Charles Simic | Interview
Charles Simic & Rachael Allen
Charles Simic is one of today's most prolific poets. He speaks with poetry editor Rachael Allen about poetic movements, simple dishes and tragicomedy.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 126
Undoing the folded lie: Poetry after 9/11
Rachael Allen
‘The real feeling of a day that changed everything forever is boiled down so incessantly, and so often, to cliché.’
In Conversation | Issue 126
John Burnside | Interview
John Burnside & Rachael Allen
‘Marx said the forest only echoes back what you shout into it – and this is very often true, perhaps more often than not, but I think the poet’s task is to suggest that it needn’t be.’
In Conversation | Issue 126
Emily Berry | Interview
Emily Berry & Rachael Allen
‘I’m not even very comfortable being defined as a female poet. You never hear about ‘male poets’.’
