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Absolutely delighted that the love i do to you is the Oxford Poetry Library’s ‘Book of the Month’ for February.

It means so much to be selected by an organisation that do so much to bring poetry to our city’s community and I’m very, very grateful to have been selected.

Check out all the work OPL are doing and read Phoebe’s review of my book here: https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.wordpress.com/book-of-the-month-archive-2020/

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It’s that time of year again! Yes, it’s submission season over at bath magg, the online magazine of new writing I co-run with Joe Carrick-Varty.

We’re on the lookout for new voice, beautiful poems and for me personally, I want to be moved by your writing as much as I’m wowed by your technical prowess.

Submissions will close February 29th, send 3 poems to bathmagg [at] gmail dot com with a brief covering letter and bio.

Don’t forget to check out: http://bathmagg.com/ to get an idea of what we like to publish

I’m over at Women’s Radio UK from today, chatting all things the love i do to you with Judymay Murphy.

You can listen to the show here: https://womensradiostation.com/judymay-is-listening-mariah-whelan-from-worse-to-verse/

Sponsored by the Centre for Creative Writing at Kellogg College, The University of Oxford and the professional society Writers in Oxford, on the 26th February 2020 I’ll be hosting another Q&A for Emerging Writers.

This is your opportunity to pose your questions to some of Oxford’s best writers, agents and publishers. For a full list of our experts and to book your free ticket visit our Eventbrite page here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quick-fire-qa-for-emerging-writers-26th-february-2020-tickets-88254123459#

Very excited to hear my prose poem ‘Four Deaths’ was longlisted for the PBS/Mslexia Women’s Poetry Prize this year. Great stuff and look forward to reading the winners!

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. By turns 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.

the love i do to you is now available here and through all good book shops

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’s transformative 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, author of THE OCCUPANT (Carcanet)

Mariah Whelan’s first book is a love affair going wrong in three different places, the UK, Japan and Korea: its protagonists only slowly learn about what they are doing to one another, and to themselves, but their sentimental education is grippingly told, its formal achievement as a sonnet sequence understated, and full of incidental pleasures, like the tuna which “wobbles on the blade, gelatinous with fish stink. /  “Eat,” he said, the trails of connective tissue dangling.”

– John Mcauliffe, author of OF ALL PLACES (Gallery Press)

One of the outputs from the residency I completed at King’s College London back in July was the below gif poem.

The goal of the project was to combine my colleague’s deconstructive critique and my creative processes in order to explore  the aesthetic construction of New Right politics.

Together, we worked on a number of texts taken from the online forum ‘reddit’.

What we found was that creative process can recover the ways in which speech acts such as the one below use aesthetics as much as politics as part of their rhetorical strategy.

Just look at the use of punctuation in the gif poem below. So much intentionality, so much desire is packed into that full stop. What the creative approach to the text allows is not simply an analysis of its function but a re-contextualisation of it within the gaze of the poem space.  The redacted text disturbs the full-stop’s normal function of ending a sentence, instead placing it in the middle of available language. Doing so triggers a moment of shift and flicker. The poem is an artificial intervention in the original text and yet it exposes its inner workings. Doing so raises further questions about the relationship between language and ideas: a key preoccupation of original text itself.

Like a prism, the poem splits and doubles language, asking more questions than it offers answers. In doing so, however, implicating the reader within the drama of aesthetics, it opens up new ways of engaging with the tropes and motifs of New Right thought.

The poem will be on display at The Exchange Gallery, London until November 2019.

Gearing up for the launch of the love i do to you in November I’ll be doing a couple of readings over the coming weeks. On Wednesday I’ll be reading to students at The University of Manchester and on Sunday I’ve been invited to give a reading to students on the MSt in Creative Writing at The University of Oxford.