Spake Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 the continuous generation and degeneration

the continuous generation and degeneration of things

with tie-in launch events around the country Fully illustrated

Saudi Arabia to Poland

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism

Spake Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 the continuous generation and degenerationSpake 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