The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Antony Owen Subtle and daring

Subtle and daring

Salamander Sun presents 60 poems

working and writing and evoking everything she sees and feels as both a storyteller and poet

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

The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Antony Owen Subtle and daringThe 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