Arthur Allen (‘Art’) attended East Anglia University and attained a BA with Honours before transferring to Oxford where he was awarded an MSt with distinction in Creative Writing; currently he is studying for his PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
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Art was runner-up in the 2021 erbacce-prize for poetry a year when over twelve thousand poets sent submissions from ever corner of the globe.
I have little to add to the extraordinary reviews on the rear cover except to say that this is quite exceptional poetry, unlike anything I have come across previously; it's a 96pp perfect-bound work of art and as such totally original.
If you click on the cover you'll open an email connection with the poet and (as he's a very friendly guy) he'll be happy to chat or even to arrange for you to be sent a signed copy of his collection...
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Michael Ondaatje, one of Canada's most renowned living authors who won the Golden Man Booker Prize for his brilliant novel The English Patient, wrote this about Art’s book:
‘I want to say right away that Treatment for Cut Flowers is a truly wonderful book. Deeply moving, beautifully written and heart-breaking. I cannot get over it... I began it this morning and I have lived with it all afternoon and all night. It is a remarkable book, the best book of poetry I have read for a long time and I have been reading a lot of poetry lately, giving up on novels and short stories. I kept marking with a pencil so many pages in the top left-hand corner. It is I think one of the most tender and loving and truthful books I have read for a long time.’
