Now We Can Talk Openly About Men by Martina Evans Wild Card     Â

          there they sit like statues of sitting dogs

most of them rescued

winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in ‘books of the year’

bending poetic form through fragment

Main Course

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men by Martina Evans Wild Card     ÂNow We Can Talk Openly About Men is made up of dramatic monologues, in two parts, the first at the time of the Irish War of Independence, the second at the time of the Civil War. Martina Evans uses two distinct narrative voices. First comes Mrs Kathleen (Kitty) Donovan, a dressmaker who is given to taking laudanum. She is followed by Miss Babe Cronin, a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. The speaking, musing, narrating