The Whole Island Connie Bensley from Jacob Sam-La Rose’s heartfelt

from Jacob Sam-La Rose’s heartfelt verse

in the transcendent paintings of Matisse and the soulful images of Edward Hopper

Naipaul's Ganesh Ramsumair in The Mystic Masseur

Luke Kennard

This is a collection of quiet tragedies and unashamedly small joys

The Whole Island Connie Bensley from Jacob Sam-La Rose’s heartfeltThe 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