RABBITBOX by Wayne Holloway-Smith Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2026
Scribner (Simon & Schuster UK)
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 a mother's comfort travel?
From the safety of his hiding place, from the magnitude of his fear, a young girl appears offering a way out. Taking him by the hand, reaching through time, she leads him elsewhere; a mother's love dreaming him away from their reality to the promise “ beautiful yet flickering “ of a river.
Haunting, precise and tender, RABBITBOX heralds a major new work from one of Britain's most exciting writers.
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