RABBITBOX by Wayne Holloway-Smith Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2026 language Precious Okoyomon

Precious Okoyomon

and hammers them into strange and kenspeckle amulets

every page pulsates with pure delight and excitement

as if to emphasise her poems' gentle refusal of existing phrases

RABBITBOX by Wayne Holloway-Smith <b> Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2026 </b> language Precious OkoyomonPublished 12 March 2026 A transfixing, heart rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all consuming domestic threat, by T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Wayne Holloway Smith. 24 Coalbrook Street. The house is trembling with a father's anger. It makes a rabbit of a young boy, sends him burrowing into a wardrobe, and leaves his mother standing hapless and mute over the kitchen sink. In this house, how far can