Collection: Allison McVety

Allison’s poems have appeared in The Times, the Guardian, Poetry Review and Poetry London, have been broadcast on BBC radio and anthologised in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011 and The Best British Poetry 2013. Her first collection The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (smith|doorstop) was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. A second collection, Miming Happiness, was published in 2010 and a third, Lighthouses, in 2014. In 2011 she won the National Poetry Competition.