The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Jacob Polley This beautiful book features famous

This beautiful book features famous poems

and rejection

Published posthumously in 1971

Tender men

incantatory phrasing with startlingly powerful visual qualities

The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Jacob Polley This beautiful book features famousThe 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