Petrol - Martina Evans

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Résumé :
Set in rural Ireland, Petrol, with its dizzying pace and extraordinary characters, is a remarkable cross between poetry and fiction.

Biographie:
Martina Evans was born in 1961 in Cork, the youngest of ten children. She moved to London in 1988. As well as four books of poetry - 'The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest' (1995), 'All Alcoholics Are Charmers' (1998), 'Can Dentists Be Trusted?' (2004) and 'Facing the Public' (2009) - she has also published three novels: 'Midnight Feast' (1996), 'The Glass Mountain' (1997) and 'No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors' (2000).

'She shows an impressive command of what feels like the ideal narrative medium: individual moments and drive of narrative in perfect coordination, language alive and kicking.' - Christopher Reid 'A drama in anti-prosody, an interior female poetry of Cork life; here the the world turns upon a pub, a petrol pump and an impossible love... a world is transfixed by personal drama, by epiphanies in bars and Icebergs, Aztecs and Bloody Marys creating a kind of alcoholic, consumerist birdlife that sings above the human drama. Evans's imagination is a unique one, darting, flitting, resonating with personal and poetic voices. As a poet she is one of a kind and brilliant.' - Thomas McCarthy