2025 - Luke Allan
Luke Allan (b. 1987, Newcastle) is a British writer, editor, and typographer.
He is editor-in-chief of the magazine Oxford Poetry and author of the poetry chapbook Sweet Dreams, the Sea (Poetry Society of America, 2025). His literary works have garnered numerous prizes like the Charles Causley Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Westerly Life Writing Prize, and the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. His works have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, the Literary Review, and Poetry.
While in Brussels, Luke Allan will be working on his experimental memoir The End, to be published in 2027. By mixing lyrical prose, literary history, and speculative metaphysics he tells the story of his relationship with books and the loss of his mother.
On Saturday 20 September 2025, Luke Allan will be one of our guest poets for Poetik Bazar.
In the September issue of the Belgian poetry magazine Poëziekrant, poet Tom Van de Voorde will publish his Dutch translations of Luke Allan's poems.
This residency is part of an annual exchange between Passa Porta and the National Centre for Writing in Norwich.