"I had in mind a kind of anti prose poem that would look and smell like one but give a different taste and have a different texture. One way of doing this was by making the conclusion of each Set flat and deflationary, almost deliberately poor in the sense that they never approached closure, either artificially or in actuality." (Tim Allen)

Tim Allen lives in Lancashire and helps run the Peter Barlow's Cigarette reading series in Manchester. He spent many years in Plymouth where he ran The Language Club and edited Terrible Work.