Book Launch: America Mules poetry collection by Martina Evans
Wednesday 21 April 2021 at 7 p.m.
Join Carcanet Press to celebrate the launch of Martina Evans’s new poetry collection, American Mules. Hosting the reading will be fellow Carcanet poet Thomas McCarthy. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. Also shown during the reading will be extracts of the text so that you can read along.
American Mules – About the Collection
Martina Evans’s eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation. They suggest to her the possibility of a very different world, one which the poems’ speakers set out to explore.
As happens so often in her poems, new and invented experiences throw into vivid relief Evans’s own intensely lived experiences. She revisits places her readers have encountered before – the radiography units of hospitals and their merciless work culture, in which the speakers must survive; a London densely populated by both human and animal characters whose colours and aspect she brilliantly evokes, and Burnfort, County Cork, with its bars and gossip and childhood complications, a subject of her lyrics.
And, in the wake of the success of her 2018 book-length sequence, Now We Can Talk Openly About Men, she gives us a new long poem, Mountainy Men, which re-imagines family trauma through the prism of classic American cinema… American Mules is two books and two or more worlds in one. Evans’s English makes different noises in the imagining of Ireland, England and America, but the same wise, wry, inventive mouth speaks them all.
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The Irish Times described her as ‘a subtle, challenging writer with a wonderfully destructive approach to the pieties she describes.’
Registration
Registration for this online event will cost £2, later redeemable against the cost of the book. All attendees will receive the discount code and how to purchase the book during and after event.
Please note that there is a limited number of places for the reading, so do book early to avoid disappointment. You should receive a confirmation email with details on how to join after you register. If this does not arrive, please contact us to let us know. Please also be aware that clicking ‘attending’ on the Facebook event will not guarantee your place – you must complete the Zoom registration
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