Christopher Allen

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Christopher Allen is a writer from England. Brought up in a musical family, he started writing lyrics and playing guitar from the age of 12. He graduated from the University of Wales, Bangor studying English Language and Literature with Journalism. In 2007, he moved to China and now resides in Beijing. His band played shows and festivals around the Chinese capital in 2011. He made his first short films in China, and published his first novel ''Kierkegaard Between Traffic and Travel'' in 2017, which was mentioned in the American bookselling magazine Publishers Weekly. He published his first work of non-fiction ''At the Opposite End of the Sky - Ten Years in China'' in 2020. He then published his first collection of poems in 2021.)

The Best Poem Of Christopher Allen

Car Accident Listening To Sinead O' Connor

i want you to come and please me
on this cloudless
suffocating turkish bath
stickiness

put 'em on, put 'em on, put 'em on me

on my way to the bureau department
to assist and back stuff

i perform a u-turn that sandpapers
a freewheelin'
cab of a man who hops over and
screams
in front of my bonnet possessed
slamming his mittens on the steel

put your hands on me

he unveils the damage but then delineates
it's not his
ha
ha

we can hear sinead yowling

you know that i can thrill you

i feel the lather under my arms
i am being walloped and flogged
from
up above

i pay the man in greenbacks
and he boodles away
saying

gimme, yes!

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