The Whole Island Ayça Türko?lu

The Whole Island Ayça Türko?luThe Whole Island explores the poet's relationship with the Isle of Man, in poems about family and folklore, history and politics, nature and wildlife. The island is navigated as a body, the body as an island. Readers may learn things about the Isle of Man, but Maddrell more frequently uses his cherished Isle as an allegory for the nature of his own queerness, and the queerness of nature and environmental threat. Liberally scattered with Manx Gaelic

Colly Metcalfe

he succeeded

it is also edgy

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The second section is less fragmented

Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition

the lonely and the careworn are a constant strand

even to the inconsequential

This is not a naive nostalgic sojourn through rural Connaught but an uncompromising white knuckle ride through sometimes dark and menacing places where sacred cows are put through their paces before being loaded up in a trailer and driven unceremoniously out to grass

Bobby Charlton

Rabia Raihane from Morocco

novelist poet Fadhil al-Azzawi and author and journalist Hussain al-Mozany