Graham Allen: Without Covenant

Graham Allen's new collection of poetry, Without Covenant, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2024. The collection presents its readers with a picture of a poet struggling with disability (specifically Parkinson’s Disease) without what it takes to be the false comforts of religion, especially the idea of the covenant or promise of protection, guidance, and providential design. Chance, contingency, and an impending sense of the imminent arrival of the worst, are the sole remaining powers in the universe of Graham Allen’s imagination, and yet they are still met by a stubborn refusal on the part of the poet to cease in the pursuit of beauty, hope, and meaning.

Graham will be in conversation with Jennifer deBie