Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith
PBS Summer Wild Card 2020 Jenny Lewis Crawford’s poems have an arresting

Crawford’s poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy

'At least once per poem

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

and chronicles the people who live there

even as they celebrate that there is really "no end to unknowing"

Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith <br><b>PBS Summer Wild Card 2020</b> Jenny Lewis Crawford’s poems have an arrestingWayne 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