The Whole Island by Simon Maddrell pandemicpoetry Greek in translation

Greek in translation

the debut collection by Lavinia Singer

yet with this collection he also takes us to starker

he died at his farm in Bunyah in New South Wales

The Whole Island by Simon Maddrell pandemicpoetry Greek in translationThe 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