Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology II ed. By Simon Armitage Mike White and a dozen chapbooks from

and a dozen chapbooks from various presses

like Oscar Wilde

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

and the magnificent management absurdities

These encounters with the strange

Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology II ed. By Simon Armitage Mike White and a dozen chapbooks fromThe University of Leeds has a long tradition of engagement with poets. Many of them were members of staff (for instance, Geoffrey Hill), some were students (Jon Silkin, Ken Smith, Tony Harrison, Jeffrey Wainwright, Ian Duhig), others creative writing fellows (James Kirkup, John Heath Stubbs, Thomas Blackburn, Jon Silkin, Peter Redgrove, David Wright, Pearse Hutchinson and Wole Soyinka among them). The poetry archives in the Brotherton Library are