Who is the Speaker in ‘Kamikaze’ + Structural Analysis of the Poem

Beatrice Garland’s ‘Kamikaze’ can be a bit confusing a first - and one of the common questions I get asked as a tutor is ‘who is the actual speaker?’. It’s not an easy question. There are a lot of different voices in the poem, so it’s important to get it right if you’re analysing it for an essay.