Mountainy Men, a short story by Martina Evans12 Stories of Christmas - Day 5:Two children fend for themselves when their father takes to the drink and their mother to the bedSat Dec 24 2016 - 06:00
You Took the Last Bus Home review: short and tweetBrian Bilston, poet laureate of Twitter, proves he is just as powerful on the printed pageSat Oct 15 2016 - 05:00
Children of Las Vegas review: A modern day fairytaleTimothy O’Grady has written a chilling account of how children are affected by parental addictionsSat Aug 27 2016 - 05:00
Tongulish by Rita Ann Higgins review: political poet with a talent for loveHiggins’s latest collection is as intensively inventive and deliciously subversive as everSat Jul 09 2016 - 01:52
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe review: a sequel packed with unforgettable detailThe author of ‘Man at the Helm’ draws from a golden seam of English comic writingSat Jun 04 2016 - 01:00
Pounded, dazzled, astonished, beaten and broken: Martina Evans on being a poetAs her Selected Poems are published, the poet reflects on her inspirations and obsessions (snakes in the bed, republican women and the Mammy of all Irish Mammies)Mon May 30 2016 - 12:39
The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka review: tower-block novel falls a little flatAn ambitious novel which combines the Lewycka trademark family comedy with political satire but there are too many charactersSat May 14 2016 - 00:17
Writing Rights: Fine Gael and Labour form a Coalition, March 1973, by Martina EvansAs part of a series by Irish writers to mark Human Rights Day, the poet and author goes back to her schooldays to explore the right to educationThu Dec 10 2015 - 10:49
Poetry Bus Magazine: bang on the moneyWriting about money is like writing about sex: it has to be about something else as well, writes Martina Evans. The best poems here do that ‘something else’ over and over againThu Dec 03 2015 - 15:34
Good readers are rarer than good writersBefore creative-writing classes existed, writers began by being readers, says Martina Evans. I don’t think things have changed that muchSat Oct 24 2015 - 00:28
The Long Gaze Back review: a feast of female voicesThis anthology of Irish women writers is a fine harvest – a comprehensive, celebratory volume, writes Martina EvansSat Sept 12 2015 - 00:44
Sweating in the paddock – a poet’s mortifying experience of being shortlistedThe last time Martina Evans was shortlisted for an award was no laughing matter, but she looks back now at the comedy of it allThu Mar 19 2015 - 15:00
‘Oh, poetry! I thought it was a book’: how Martina Evans’s mother became her muse‘That poetry is considered to be on or even beyond the margins has never bothered me. In fact, I am sure that is where I belong’Tue Mar 17 2015 - 12:33
In praise of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, by Martina EvansCelebrating Irish Women Writers: ‘Like Alice Munro, Ní Dhuibhne is a funny, original and brave chronicler of the lives of women’Wed Mar 04 2015 - 21:16
Surprises and giftsFor a long time I didn't have a writing day; my first book of poetry and two novels were written while I was working full-time…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
