Description
'Petrol' is a prose poem disguised as a novella of adolescence in Co. Cork, Ireland. It is a unique work and a remarkable departure for a writer whose poetry is widely appreciated for its humour and uncompromising depiction of rural Ireland.
About the Author
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) and 'No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors' (2000).
Reviews
'She shows an impressive command of what feels like the ideal narrative medium: individual moments and drive of narrative in perfect coordination, language alive and kicking.' - Christopher Reid 'A drama in anti-prosody, an interior female poetry of Cork life; here the the world turns upon a pub, a petrol pump and an impossible love... a world is transfixed by personal drama, by epiphanies in bars and Icebergs, Aztecs and Bloody Marys creating a kind of alcoholic, consumerist birdlife that sings above the human drama. Evans's imagination is a unique one, darting, flitting, resonating with personal and poetic voices. As a poet she is one of a kind and brilliant.' - Thomas McCarthy
Book Information
ISBN 9780856464485
Author Martina Evans
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
About the Author
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) and 'No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors' (2000).
Reviews
'She shows an impressive command of what feels like the ideal narrative medium: individual moments and drive of narrative in perfect coordination, language alive and kicking.' - Christopher Reid 'A drama in anti-prosody, an interior female poetry of Cork life; here the the world turns upon a pub, a petrol pump and an impossible love... a world is transfixed by personal drama, by epiphanies in bars and Icebergs, Aztecs and Bloody Marys creating a kind of alcoholic, consumerist birdlife that sings above the human drama. Evans's imagination is a unique one, darting, flitting, resonating with personal and poetic voices. As a poet she is one of a kind and brilliant.' - Thomas McCarthy
Book Information
ISBN 9780856464485
Author Martina Evans
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
