Collected Poems by Ken Smith Nick Laird The mischievous and often dark

The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith’s first collection Alarum exists in the space between the peculiar thought and its dismissal

recovering past moments as intensely present

and Elyse Fenton

Whole countries inhabit it

Written from personal experience without a hint of sentimentality

Collected Poems by Ken Smith Nick Laird The mischievous and often darkPublication Date : 25 Oct 2018 Ken Smith (1938 2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. His politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry shifted territory with time, from rural Yorkshire, America and London to the war ravaged Balkans and Eastern Europe (before and after Communism). His early books span a transition from a preoccupation with land and myth to