Wayne Holloway-Smith

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Wayne Holloway-Smith: RABBITBOX · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

Careful, careful, one slip, rabbit, one bump, and suddenly the whole house is awake and hymnal, a shadow's man lunge, and Osanna the wallpaper is trumpeting, his hand orchestral, his voice, Osanna the pots, some pans, a shoe kicked, and the doorframe booms animate, summing in him like a fist to the back,

always hard blue veins under dark blue jeans a mother always mute over the sink at the edge of everything no kind words but the place is ringing a question

for how many a home annunciates its offspring this way its song holding a child by the throat and wrong deep in its full volume and how many an offspring grows tough gone off on the carpet hands over its ears in the depths of a wardrobe or out the window and under the street lights at the edge of everything please

Yeah, fact or something.

So this is where we get into the fact that I don't actually know anything.

And most of the things that I accumulate are like secondhand from some of my friends who are really good poets.

And this particular idea of blind spots was told to me by Anthony, an ex-guru over there.

He'd listened to a podcast by Ray Armantrout.

And she was talking about, I was going to get onto this later, so you haven't actually stuck to the script there.

Which is like, it's... Michael, it's a good way to sort of... It's a good way for us to ease into the conversation.

We, like...

I guess there's like an emotional truth that you're trying to get at or a picture that you're trying to get at.

And what Ray Armantrout says is that often the intensity of trying to look at that directly or in the eye creates a kind of blind spot, right?

And so what she does in her work is say the blind spots there, the emotional truth is behind it.

And she's trying to kind of like,

peek around the right, peek over the top, and she's kind of doing that.

So you're getting all of these sort of like different angles, which I guess builds up a picture of that emotional truth or whatever it is you're trying to get to without having to look at it quite as directly.

So again, like Anthony straight to Jack, like there's nothing of me in this entire text really.

But like, so John, where did John go?

John was mentioning before like, yeah, the couple of other books that I've written and I kind of written those in,

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