Now We Can Talk Openly About Men by Martina Evans Wild Card bending poetic form through fragment

bending poetic form through fragment

most of them rescued

There are elegies to the cineastes Abbas Kiarostami and Chantal Akerman

with their own humour

          there they sit like statues of sitting dogs

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men by Martina Evans Wild Card bending poetic form through fragmentNow 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