MSt alumna Mariah Whelan’s “the love i do to you” will be launched by Eyewear Books on 26 November 2019.
From the announcement:
“In this genre-bending debut Mariah Whelan tells the love story of ‘He’ and ‘She’. Once lovers and now… something else, in this collection of sonnets the poems roam across the UK, Europe, Japan and South Korea to explore the oldest of lyric subjects – love, desire, friendship and betrayal. Painful, playful and sensual, these poems explore the bonds that tie lovers and friends together in a collection of startling formal energy and emotional candour.
Mariah Whelan is a poet from Oxford. Her poems appear in The
Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2019, Best New British and Irish
Poets 2018, The Poetry Book
Society website, The
Interpreter’s House and elsewhere. Her writing has been shortlisted for
The Bridport Prize, The Melita Hume Prize and has won The AM Heath
Prize. Mariah has degrees from Queen’s University Belfast and The
University of Oxford, and she currently holds a PhD research scholarship
at
The University of Manchester where she is writing a new
collection of poems and researching trauma and representation in
contemporary Irish fiction.
The admirable achievement of Mariah Whelan’s the love i do to you lies not just in its page-turning fusion of lyrical poetics and dramatic narration, but in the moving power of its steady and intimate candour. Whelan’stransformative sense of scene
– ‘your words like trolleys / half-submerged in the river-clay and weeds’ – is never less than compelling, its psychological alertness quietly propulsive from start to finish. — Jane Draycott”
See the Eyewear website for more information
Details of the launch in London, 26 November
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