Luke Allan

Luke Allan lives and works in Manchester. He works as editorial manager of the poetry press Carcanet and runs the small­ press sine wave peak, which specialises in concrete and minimal poetry, including recent works by Jerome Rothenberg, Thomas A Clark, and Aram Saroyan.Luke studied Creative Writing at UEA. While living in England he edited the journal of the Newcastle Philosophy Society and co-founded the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog. In 2011 he received a Northern Writers’ Award.His first collection of poems, minimum soft exchange, is published by MIEL Press.