Spake Anne Michaels Unflinching

Unflinching

Emily Dickinson and The Smiths

entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand

in another

Is nowhere a place we can get closer to

Spake Anne Michaels UnflinchingSpake 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