The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Jacob Polley and rejection

and rejection

or a shout comes up to the window

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

incantatory phrasing with startlingly powerful visual qualities

An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College

The Coming Thing by Martina Evans Jacob Polley and rejectionThe 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