{"product_id":"now-we-can-talk-openly-martina-evans-9781784105785","title":"Now We Can Talk Openly about Men","description":"Shortlisted for the 2019 \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Now Award. \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the 2019 Pigott Poetry Award. \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the 2019 Roehampton Poetry Prize. \u003cbr\u003e Featured in the \u003ci\u003eTLS \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year 2018. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Martina Evans's \u003ci\u003eNow We Can Talk Openly about Men \u003c\/i\u003eis a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for laudanum. Babe is a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. Through their separate, overlapping stories, Evans colours an era and a culture seldom voiced in verse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set back some years from their stories, both women find a strand of humour in what took place, even as they recall the passion, vertigo and terror of those times. A dream-like compulsion in their voices adds a sense of retrospective inevitability. The use of intense, almost psychedelic colour in the first half of the book opposes the flattened, monochrome language of the second half. This is a work of vivid contrasts, of age and youth, women and men, the Irish and the English: complementary stories of balance, imbalance, and transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martina Evans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784105783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784105785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Martina Evans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077336166655,"sku":"9781784105785","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c75b10c3-8e87-43f5-9d1c-2c7a40f8ea39.jpg?v=1685469436","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/now-we-can-talk-openly-martina-evans-9781784105785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}