Forewords                                                                                                   

Tea                                                                                                              

Blood                                                                                     

Eel                                                                                                               

Intestine                                                                                                      

Fish                                                                                                             

Milk                                                                                                             

Afterwords                                                                                                                  

Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Stirling, UK. He has published widely on both multilingualism and sociolinguistics. Together with Angela Creese he is the author of Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography (Multilingual Matters, 2019), Interpretations - An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2021), Volleyball - An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Ode to the City - An Ethnographic Drama (Multilingual Matters, 2022). He was Birmingham Poet Laureate from 2014-2016.