The Whole IslandThe 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

take to heart the advice of the novel’s title

from Palestine and Iraq

The North magazine is now 25 years old

hushed and surprisingly alive

‘je suis tous les autres’

he journey’s north into the newly named county of Lancashire

a child called Deeby from the sewers

Zoya Ezrokhi

a ravenous language-machine eating up the margins of the city

Set on the eve of world war

Funeral Oration

experiencing grief or recovering from heartbreak