Facing the Public

Winner of the 2011 Piero Ciampi International Poetry Prize. This collection contains the familiar Martina Evans elements but with a sharper political edge. The title poem is an essay in her most engaging narrative-comic style, familiar to audiences at her superb readings: my mother never asked like a normal person, it was I'm asking you for the last time, I'm imploring you not to go up that road again late for Mass.