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Burnfort, Las Vegas

  • ISBN-13: 9780856464577
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Martina Evans
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 20/10/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Martina Evanss fifth collection moves from the impact of American culture and rocknroll in the 1960s on her home town, a small Catholic community in rural Ireland, to life in contemporary London. Her poems spring from memories, anecdotes of local characters, childrens books, shoes and cats; finally they revisit her Burnfort schooldays in sharp, truthful and often funny poems. Her poems will appeal to all who enjoy her unique blend of poetry and storytelling, her astute mimicry of conversational styles and her gift for offbeat humour.
Martina Evans was born in 1961 in Cork, the youngest of ten children. She moved to London in 1988. As well as four books of poetry - 'The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest' (1995), 'All Alcoholics Are Charmers' (1998), 'Can Dentists Be Trusted?' (2004) and 'Facing the Public' (2009) - she has also published three novels: 'Midnight Feast' (1996), 'The Glass Mountain' (1997), 'No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors' (2000) and the prose-poem/novella 'Petrol' (2012).
"Martina Evans's poems are a miracle, for the way they combine total clarity with profundity: the way the apparently innocent and observant humour of their narrative surface covers a compassion and understanding that are often heartbreaking and heartbroken."-- Bernard O'Donoghue "She is at once emotional and shrewd: hidden behind the rich lace-curtain of her personal charm, her existentialism sings."--Thomas McCarthy
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