The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Antony Owen and this book a singular

and this book a singular achievement' Nick Laird

Subtle and daring

from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this

Terry was involved with putting on a puppet version of Gilgamesh where the children related viscerally to the story

Hajnoczky deracinates exclusionary practices of listening

The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Antony Owen and this book a singularThe Coming Thing is a brilliant long narrative poem. It is not Evans's first: she has become celebrated for work on this scale, spoken, dramatic, abundant. She has been justly acclaimed by, among others, Colm Toibin. He says of her inimitable narrative style, 'Slowly, a poem that seems animated by random thoughts and images takes on a strange, concentrated power; the lines begin to feel like pure style, the narrative voice holding and wielding the