Books by Martina Evans
“In The Coming Thing, Martina Evans offers a powerfully realised world—Cork city in the 1980s—and an unforgettable narrator, Imelda, on a journey to England for an abortion. From the strictures of a Republic which denied Irish women bodily autonomy until constitutional change in 2018, Evans creates an Everywoman on the brink of the digital age.” Read more...
Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist
Paula Meehan, Poet
Interviews where books by Martina Evans were recommended
Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist, recommended by Paula Meehan
Seamus Heaney argued that poetry might not change the world, but it could change our perception of the world. Now, a new prize set up in his name seeks to honour exciting new work with a political edge. Poet Paula Meehan, one of the judges of the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, talks us through their shortlist of six poetry books and pamphlets we should be reading in 2024.
