American Mules by Martina Evans Wendy Cope three poets emerged as clear

three poets emerged as clear choices: Krystelle Bamford

including Learning to Improvise (Rockingham Press

the race of which he's still a part playing always on his mind

dead and alive

Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014

American Mules by Martina Evans Wendy Cope three poets emerged as clearMartina Evans's eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation. They suggest to her the possibility of a very different world, one which the poems' speakers set out to explore. As happens often in her poems, new and invented experiences throw into relief Evans's own intensely lived experiences: the radiography units of hospitals and their merciless work culture, in which the speakers must survive; a London densely