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Burnfort Las Vegas

by Martina Evans
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780856464577
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
  • Publisher Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
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  • Pages: 64
  • Original Price: USD 16.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 91 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

"She is at once emotional and shrewd: hidden behind the rich lace-curtain of her personal charm, her existentialism sings."--Thomas McCarthy "Martina Evans's poems are a miracle, for the way they combine total clarity with profundity: the way the apparently innocent and observant humour of their narrative surface covers a compassion and understanding that are often heartbreaking and heartbroken."-- Bernard O'Donoghue Following her prose poem-cum-novella Petrol (2013), Martina Evans returns to her childhood and adolescence in County Cork, Ireland, with poems and prose poems which begin with the impact of American culture and particularly rock 'n' roll on the small town where she grew up. We move the Sacred Heart lampcloser to Elvis's face now in the monthof June. I think that thosebillboards of Vegascould be the Major cigarette signor the Double Diamond Works Wondersin the lounge window round '75or the BP pump shiningin the blue Burnfort evening . . . We encounter ghosts, travelers, shoes, old movies, alcoholics, and even Bart Simpson in Evans's poems as we move from her school and college days, with their eccentric cast of teachers, to contemporary London and the sights, sounds, and characters of Balls Pond Road, where she lives with her daughter and three cats. The book ends with a series of poems about youthful reading--from clandestine reading in class to the joy and escape of childhood reading--"the miracle / of the black marks straightening themselves / out into sense across the page."

Martina Evans: Martina Evans was born in 1961, the youngest of ten children, and grew up in County Cork. After training as a radiographer in Dublin she moved to London in 1988. Her first collection of poems, The Inniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest, appeared in 1995 and was followed by three further collections, All Alcoholics are Charmers, Can Dentists Be Trusted? and Facing the Public. Her prose poem-cum-novella Petrol was published in 2012. She teaches Creative Writing at the City Literary Institute. She is also the author of three novels. She lives in London with her daughter.

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