Spake Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 with tie-in launch events around

with tie-in launch events around the country Fully illustrated

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism

in the intimate transactions between bodies

three poets emerged as clear choices: Romalyn Ante

art to music

Spake Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 with tie-in launch events aroundSpake is a love letter to West Midlands voice and a challenge the preconceptions and prejudices that abound about dialect and non standard English. Much maligned, frequently overlooked or simply left out altogether: the English West Midlands has for decades been diminished in the national conversation and with it, the rich dialects and voices of the region are often misunderstood, ignored or worse ridiculed and mocked. But whos to say that the way we