Allocution: Selected Poems 1990-2025

by Nicholas Fillmore

From early workshop poems to poems scribbled in solitary midnight hours to poems declaimed atop the volcano, Allocution follows the author's personal and poetical vision over four decades.



"One hell of a poet!" - Charles Simic

126 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2026

About the author

Nicholas Fillmore is the author of SMUGGLER, an IndieReader Discovery Award-winning memoir and screenplay, THE GOSPEL OF SATAN, a novella, ALLOCUTION: Selected Poems 1990-2025, and SINS OF OUR FATHERS, a novel (forthcoming). He attended the graduate writing program at University of New Hampshire, was a finalist for the Juniper Prize, the Hudson Prize and others, and co-founded SQUiD magazine in Provincetown, MA. He lives in Boston and Hawaii with his wife and daughter and teaches college English.