His early books span a transition from a preoccupation with land and myth to his later engagement with urban Britain and the politics of radical disaffection
Each poem is an attempt at location – in time
Saffron Jack is the story of a man trying to find somewhere he might be himself
Crawford’s poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy
What does it mean to fight for a ‘mother country’ that refuses to accept you as one of its own
Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith <br><b>PBS Summer Wild Card 2020</b> Jenny Lewis His early books span aWayne 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