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Shortlisted for the 2019 Pigott Poetry Award.
Shortlisted for the 2019 Roehampton Poetry Prize.
Featured in the TLS & Irish Times Books of the Year 2018. Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for laudanum. Babe is a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. Through their separate, overlapping stories, Evans colours an era and a culture seldom voiced in verse. Set back some years from their stories, both women find a strand of humour in what took place, even as they recall the passion, vertigo and terror of those times. A dream-like compulsion in their voices adds a sense of retrospective inevitability. The use of intense, almost psychedelic colour in the first half of the book opposes the flattened, monochrome language of the second half. This is a work of vivid contrasts, of age and youth, women and men, the Irish and the English: complementary stories of balance, imbalance, and transition.
Shortlisted for the 2019 Pigott Poetry Award.
Shortlisted for the 2019 Roehampton Poetry Prize.
Featured in the TLS & Irish Times Books of the Year 2018. Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for laudanum. Babe is a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. Through their separate, overlapping stories, Evans colours an era and a culture seldom voiced in verse. Set back some years from their stories, both women find a strand of humour in what took place, even as they recall the passion, vertigo and terror of those times. A dream-like compulsion in their voices adds a sense of retrospective inevitability. The use of intense, almost psychedelic colour in the first half of the book opposes the flattened, monochrome language of the second half. This is a work of vivid contrasts, of age and youth, women and men, the Irish and the English: complementary stories of balance, imbalance, and transition.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781784105785 |
| ISBN-10: | 1784105783 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Evans, Martina |
| Hersteller: | Carcanet Press |
| Maße: | 211 x 135 x 8 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Martina Evans |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 31.05.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,113 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781784105785 |
| ISBN-10: | 1784105783 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Evans, Martina |
| Hersteller: | Carcanet Press |
| Maße: | 211 x 135 x 8 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Martina Evans |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 31.05.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,113 kg |
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