The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Antony Owen from her birth early in

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

and how we how we embody our times

 The Poet Reclining: Selected Poems 1962-1980 (1982) and Shed: Poems 1980-2001 (2002)

Salamander Sun presents 60 poems

The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Antony Owen from her birth early inThe 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