Sweet Dreams, the Sea by Luke Allan

Selected and Introduced by Ishion Hutchinson

"The signature style of Sweet Dreams, the Sea is the way that—often in the span of a single line—the touch of humor shores up the everlasting pain of heartbreak. That such grace notes of levity buoy the elegiac gravity of these poems is, in the end, a superb act of consolation."

—Ishion Hutchinson, from his introduction

Luke Allan is a poet, editor, and typographer. His writing has received the Charles Causley Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, the Ivan Juritz Prize, and the Westerly Life Writing Prize, and is published in The Paris Review, Poetry, the TLS, and Granta. He is editor­-in-chief of Oxford Poetry and former managing editor at Carcanet Press and PN Review. He studied creative writing at the University of Oxford and book arts at the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching poetry and typography.

Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group. The cover's marbled paper design is by Stephen Pittelkow.