@nick-allen-poet.bsky.social
More impeccable genius from Fosse. 100 pages, in 3 parts. Everyone has at least 2 names they are known by.
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
More impeccable genius from Fosse. 100 pages, in 3 parts. Everyone has at least 2 names they are known by.
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
A man leaves a small fishing village In his boat in search of a good needle and some black thread to sew a couple of loose buttons
Love story, a ghost story, a story of
whims.
Wonderful
The magnificent BinJuice
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The magnificent BinJuice
Great to have a poem in this excellent anthology, alongside the work of 60 or so fine poets.
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Great to have a poem in this excellent anthology, alongside the work of 60 or so fine poets.
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
Buy your copy from Fig Tree (Crooked Spire Press)
So… Fitzcaraldo had a sale … (there’s a couple more to come)
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So… Fitzcaraldo had a sale … (there’s a couple more to come)
Art on t’moors
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Art on t’moors
Quietly devastating: quiet then devastating.
Brilliant novel.
Brilliant novel.
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Quietly devastating: quiet then devastating.
Brilliant novel.
Brilliant novel.
Know your enemy
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Know your enemy
“Self-elegy is an established genre in Classical Arabic poetry… the living “I” bids farewell to its imagined dying other.”
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
“Self-elegy is an established genre in Classical Arabic poetry… the living “I” bids farewell to its imagined dying other.”
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
From XVI, on Gaza: “You wonder: what kind of a linguistic or legal wunderkind could formulate a peace treaty and good neighbourliness between a palace and a shack?”
Luminous
Returned from Canada with rather more books than intended…
August 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Returned from Canada with rather more books than intended…
Thunderbird
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thunderbird
Spectacular debut novel: 200 pages of good v evil in 1950s Jamaica.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
July 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Spectacular debut novel: 200 pages of good v evil in 1950s Jamaica.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
The village has a drunk for a preacher, he is fall-down piss yourself drunk in public much of the time. One day Apostle York arrives from nowhere to drive the Rum Preacher out of town and set the people back on the righteous path.
early headland with
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
July 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
early headland with
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
back to a rock, collar up
writing fresh poems
Covered bridge, Golden BC
July 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Covered bridge, Golden BC
This is an outstanding short novel - but you have to not mind getting up to your elbows in gore. A family house deep in the mountains and the woods in Catalonia. There is witchcraft and devil summoning.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
July 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is an outstanding short novel - but you have to not mind getting up to your elbows in gore. A family house deep in the mountains and the woods in Catalonia. There is witchcraft and devil summoning.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
Fluid, beautiful, ugly, deranged and unputdownable. Essentially Angela Carter meets GG Marquez.
Takakkwa
July 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Takakkwa
Local for a couple of nights.
July 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Local for a couple of nights.
Field, BC
July 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Field, BC
Meryl McMaster: @ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
stories of land, memory, female memory, displacement, colonialism, the horror of the school system that removed First Nation children from their homes & families.
Powerful, heartbreaking and wonderful.
Buy Bloodlines.
stories of land, memory, female memory, displacement, colonialism, the horror of the school system that removed First Nation children from their homes & families.
Powerful, heartbreaking and wonderful.
Buy Bloodlines.
July 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Meryl McMaster: @ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
stories of land, memory, female memory, displacement, colonialism, the horror of the school system that removed First Nation children from their homes & families.
Powerful, heartbreaking and wonderful.
Buy Bloodlines.
stories of land, memory, female memory, displacement, colonialism, the horror of the school system that removed First Nation children from their homes & families.
Powerful, heartbreaking and wonderful.
Buy Bloodlines.
Humbling to be surrounded by life forms thought to be 800+ years old: Cathedral Grove.
July 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Humbling to be surrounded by life forms thought to be 800+ years old: Cathedral Grove.
Transitioning raven mask
July 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Transitioning raven mask
Lions gate
July 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Lions gate