Michael

<p><em>Michael</em> by Mariah Whelan is a pamphlet-length poem that takes the form of a play. Set in a 'small town in northern England' and written with attention to the splatter of syllabic sound and a chorus of voices that 'move like water' Whelan's hybrid text recalls Ilya Kaminsky's <em>The Deaf Republic</em> and Dylan Thomas' celebrated<em> Under Milk Wood</em>. Musical and sometimes whimsical in the text's wry regard for the eponymous protagonist <em>Michael</em> is a pamphlet about ghosts grief and longing for connection in post-Brexit Britain. </p>