The Empty Show

*Commended in the Anne Elder Award*

'Drawing influence from her omnivorous reading, Alice infuses word collages and broken fields of type with lyric feeling. In this debut collection she has curated poems that reflect conditions of lostness. She observes and resists the desire to make logical conclusions, opting instead for phrases, images and voices of anachronism and surprise.’ — Bonny Cassidy

‘Allan brings together her forays into sign collecting, construction of self, and the journey from lost to found.’ – Julia Clark, Cordite Poetry Review

‘poetry that acknowledges its lies, is not afraid of the emptiness of relationships, motherhood and Australia in an age of technophilia and climate change’ — Gabrielle Everall, TEXT Journal