Love minus Love (Poems)

Bloodaxe, Hexham 2020 (1st publ.)

Holloway-Smith, Wayne
Love minus Love (Poems)
Bloodaxe, Hexham 2020 (1st publ.)
Größe: gr. 8°
Seitenzahl: 61 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
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- Verlagsinfo: Wayne Holloway-Smith's second book-length book of poetry, Love Minus Love, is an internal universe, fragmented and glued back together with uncanny logic. A strange layering of time, in which multiple things happen at once, in a looping track of intrusive thoughts – shot through with dead cows, pop songs, dead dads, the white noise of televisions – rotten teeth are raining everywhere. Somewhere at the core of all this, the seemingly fixed boundaries of masculinity, family, trauma and mental health are blurred towards a new type of vinegary identity, in a pitch of emotional intensity that punches you right in the gut. Wayne Holloway-Smith's debut collection Alarum was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the Roehampton Poetry Prize as well as being a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. His poem 'the posh mums are boxing in the square' – included in Love Minus Love – won first prize in the Poetry Society's 2018 National Poetry Competition. [L200/holl.w/...]

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