Wayne Holloway-Smith is a British poet. He was born in

Swindon Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon un ...

, Wiltshire, and currently lives in London. Holloway-Smith's first poetry publication was the pamphlet ''Beloved, in case you've been wondering'', published by Donut Press in 2011. His first book-length collection, ''Alarum'' (2017), was a

Poetry Book Society The Poetry Book Society (PBS) was founded in 1953 by T. S. Eliot and friends, including Sir Basil Blackwell, "to propagate the art of poetry". Eric Walter White was secretary from December 1953 until 1971, and was subsequently the society's chair ...

Wildcard Choice for Winter 2017, and was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 and the

Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry The Seamus Heaney Centre is located at Queen's University Belfast, and named after the late Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney graduated from Queens in 1961 with a First Class Honours in English language and l ...

Prize for the First Full Collection in 2018. The final poem in the collection – "Short" – won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2016. His second pamphlet, ''I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE WENDING'', was published by Test Centre in 2018. His poem "the posh mums are boxing in the square" won the

National Poetry Competition The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. It is run by the UK-based Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition ...

in 2018. His second full-length collection, ''Love minus Love'', was shortlisted for the 2020

T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Priz ...

as well as being a Poetry Book Society Wild Card choice. His pamphlet, ''Lasagne'', was published by Out-Spoken Press in spring 2020. Holloway-Smith is also a lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at the

University of Hertfordshire The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is a public university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The university is based largely in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Its antecedent institution, Hatfield Technical College, was founded in 1948 and was ident ...

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