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Allison McVety’s debut collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop), was shortlisted in 2008 for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Her poems have been published in The Times and PN Review and have been broadcast on BBC radio. Allison has an MA in Poetry and was shortlisted for the MMU Poetry Prize 2008. Her second collection, Miming Happiness (Smith/Doorstop), was published in May 2010.

Boy on the Bus, a poem from Allison's first collection, appears in Poems of the Decade an anthology of the Forward books of poetry 2002-2011.

"she invests her confident clear-sighted narratives with real vitality "Aldeburgh Festival

"her voice is clear and strong, her poems perceptive and moving"Ledbury Festival

"a poet at the height of her powers" Poetry Book Society

"hymns translating to glory the everyday struggles of ordinary people" Tribune

"vivid and sensual" Vicki Feaver

"McVety at her most singular and best" Magma