All Alcoholics are Charmers - Softcover

'Evans has immediate appeal, not being afraid to take risks, using throwaway lines with zany overtones... Narrative flows, humorous, outspoken, carrying the sting along with it... This is no inexperienced voice, and I greatly look forward to hearing more of her' - Leland Bardwell, Poetry Ireland Review

Martina Evans' new collection mines the rich seam running between rural Ireland and urban England, between personal and folk memory, and between fiction and reality. These are poems that simultaneously engage with the real world, while keeping a line open to myth and history. They are peopled with nurses, minicab drivers and priests, set-dancers, drinkers and lovers, Mayo labourers, children and Indian cornershop-owners. From County Cork to London's Holloway Road, "All Alcoholics are Charmers" is a second collection that buzzes and sings with life.