All Alcoholics Are Charmers
All Alcoholics Are Charmers by Martina Evans is a first edition collection published by Carcanet Press Ltd. on June 1, 2004. This 64-page book presents a series of poems that explore the connections between rural Ireland and urban England, blending personal and folk memory with elements of fiction and reality. The work features a diverse cast of characters, including nurses, minicab drivers, and priests, as it traverses various settings from County Cork to London’s Holloway Road.
Readers will find that the poems engage with themes related to alcoholism and its psychological aspects, reflecting on the lives of drinkers, lovers, and laborers. The collection captures a vibrant tapestry of life, intertwining myth and history while remaining grounded in the real world. Through its exploration of these interconnected experiences, All Alcoholics Are Charmers offers a unique perspective on the complexities of human relationships and memory.
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Martina Evans’s 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.
Martina Evans (b. 1961) grew up in Co. Cork. She trained as a radiographer at St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, and moved to London in 1988. Her first collection of poems, `The Inniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest’ appeared in 1995.
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