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The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith’s fearlessly inventive 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. Here he reads seven poems from the book: ‘Some Waynes’, ‘No Worries’, ‘Short’, ‘Alarum’, ‘Please Understand’, ‘Everything is always sometimes broken’ and ‘The Language’. At the end he talks about how his sense of identity as a writer evolved both from his working-class background and from his take on working-class masculinity, concerns he parodies in the poem ‘No Worries’. 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. ALARUM was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Neil Astley filmed him reading a selection of poems from his debut collection in London in April 2018. For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/alarum-1133
The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith’s fearlessly inventive 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. Here he reads seven poems from the book: ‘Some Waynes’, ‘No Worries’, ‘Short’, ‘Alarum’, ‘Please Understand’, ‘Everything is always sometimes broken’ and ‘The Language’. At the end he talks about how his sense of identity as a writer evolved both from his working-class background and from his take on working-class masculinity, concerns he parodies in the poem ‘No Worries’. 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. ALARUM was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Neil Astley filmed him reading a selection of poems from his debut collection in London in April 2018. For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/alarum-1133
