Love Minus Love

Wayne Holloway-Smith''s second collection Love Minus Love is an emotionally intense exploration of a fragmented personal universe. Its seemingly fixed boundaries of masculinity, family, trauma and mental health are blurred and glued back together through the poems in search of a new sense of identity. 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.