Alarum by Wayne Holloway-Smith Incarnation drawing on seven collections that

drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing

Writing with an almost Burnsian eclecticism

and modern as in ‘Elan’ where we we float through the eerie depths of a submerged Welsh village that was drowned to make a reservoir for Liverpool in the 60’s

under pressure of real themes and subjects

Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

Alarum by Wayne Holloway-Smith Incarnation drawing on seven collections thatShortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2017 The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway Smiths 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