Gillian Allnutt was born in London but spent half her childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne. Nantucket and the Angel (1997) and Lintel (2001) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and poems from these collections are included in her Bloodaxe retrospective How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems (2007), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Lode (Bloodaxe Books)...
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