The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Jacob Polley taut and explosive that the

taut and explosive that the book might shatter into fragments without form’s stern control over this primal material

'These poems engage with hard rather than 'soft' knocks: death and art

except what intimacy is or looks like

This beautiful book features famous poems

incantatory phrasing with startlingly powerful visual qualities

The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Jacob Polley taut and explosive that theThe 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