Arthur Allen recently completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. His first poetry pamphlet, Here Birds Are, was published by Green Bottle Press, London, in 2017. Poems from the collection won the Madison Review Prize and The Mississippi Review Prize 2017, and featured in the Amsterdam Quarterly, The Irish Literary Review, The Bombay Review, and The Indian Review. His poetry has also appeared previously in Elbow Room, Eyot, Cactus Heart Review, Wilderness House and Vayavya. An extract from THE NURSERYMAN will appear in Footnote: A Journal of Literary History, Vol. 4.