Dominoes - Softcover

Allen, Connor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916632203 ISBN 13: 9781916632202

Publisher: Lucent Dreaming, 2025

Synopsis

Delving into his life and experiences of love, loss growing up mixed-race in Newport, and more, this is the debut poetry collection from award-winning multidisciplinary artist and former Children’s Laureate Wales Connor Allen.

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About the Author

Connor Allen is a multidisciplinary artist and the Children’s Laureate of Wales (2021-2023). He has written for BBC Wales, BBC Radio 4, Sherman Theatre, Literature Wales, Dirty Protest and others, and is a member of the BBC Wales Welsh Voices and The Welsh Royal Court writing groups. His work is heavily inspired by elements of his own life including grief, love, masculinity, identity and ethnicity. An actor graduate of Trinity Saint David, he wrote and performed in his acclaimed debut show The Making of a Monster at the Wales Millennium Centre in 2022 (playtext published by Aurora Metro Books). In 2021, he won the Rising Star Wales Award, and was a Jerwood Live Work Fund recipient. He is Associate Artist of his hometown theatre The Riverfront in Newport.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lucent Dreaming
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916632203
• ISBN 13: 9781916632202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 108