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Now We Can Talk Openly About Men, Paperback / softback Book

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men Paperback / softback

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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.

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