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    Now We Can Talk Openly About Men
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    Now We Can Talk Openly About Men

    By Martina Evans

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    Shortlisted for the 2019 Irish Times Poetry Now Award

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Poetry
    Release dateMay 31, 2018
    ISBN9781784105792
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    Now We Can Talk Openly About Men
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    Martina Evans

    Martina Evans is an Irish poet and novelist and the author of twelve books of prose and poetry. American Mules (Carcanet, 2021) – was a TLS and Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year. It won the 2022 Pigott Poetry Prize. She is a books critic for the Irish Times.

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