Luke Allan lives and works in Manchester. He works as editorial manager of the poetry press Carcanet and runs the small press sine wave peak, which specialises in concrete and minimal poetry, including recent works by Jerome Rothenberg, Thomas A Clark, and Aram Saroyan.Luke studied Creative Writing at UEA. While living in England he edited the journal of the Newcastle Philosophy Society and co-founded the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog. In 2011 he received a Northern Writers’ Award.His first collection of poems, minimum soft exchange, is published by MIEL Press.