Love Minus Love

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Wayne Holloway-Smith

Wayne Holloway-Smith’s second collection Love Minus Love is an innovative book-length sequence which Max Porter calls “unforgettably brilliant” and Fiona Benson calls “exciting, excoriating, gorgeous, appalling, and eye-wateringly honest”. Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice shortlisted for the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize.

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Wayne Holloway-Smith’s second collection 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 dancing in the square’ – included in Love Minus Love – won first prize in the Poetry Society’s 2018 National Poetry Competition. Love Minus Love is shortlisted for the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize and is also a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.

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Weight 97 g
Dimensions 23.4 × 15.6 × 0.6 cm
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Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

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Cover

Paperback

Pages

63

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K