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Alarum
Wayne Holloway-Smith
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Description for Alarum
Paperback. First collection by one of Britain's liveliest young poets. Wayne Holloway-Smith has been a been a strong presence on the London poetry scene for several years, renowned for his wildly imaginative poems and compelling stage presence. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 138.
The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith's first collection Alarum exists in the space between the peculiar thought and its dismissal. It is a place in which commonsense is unfixed, where the imagination disrupts notions of stability. 'A single crow falling from the mind' of the poet is something awkward left at our feet, and the 'air itself' is the voice of skewered unease. The complexities of life are jolted awake throughout this fearlessly inventive debut, as loss arrives played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a movie, the risk of romance is understood as the filling in a sandwich, ... Read more
The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith's first collection Alarum exists in the space between the peculiar thought and its dismissal. It is a place in which commonsense is unfixed, where the imagination disrupts notions of stability. 'A single crow falling from the mind' of the poet is something awkward left at our feet, and the 'air itself' is the voice of skewered unease. The complexities of life are jolted awake throughout this fearlessly inventive debut, as loss arrives played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a movie, the risk of romance is understood as the filling in a sandwich, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373300
SKU
V9781780373300
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99-17
About Wayne Holloway-Smith
Wayne Holloway-Smith was born in Wiltshire and lives in London. He received his PhD in English and Creative Writing from Brunel University in 2015. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His pocketbook, Beloved, in case you've been wondering was published by Donut Press in 2011. He co-edits the online journal Poems in Which and teaches ... Read more
Reviews for Alarum
'Alarum is a collection composed in the mournful shadows , skulking beneath your window at that very hour of a sleepless night when you feel most alone, to deliver up to you its glorious, melancholy verdict on living. By turns abject, bereft, exultant and belligerent, the poems' voices reckon with the things we can't get hold of (or get ... Read more