{"product_id":"launch-drunken-driving-by-martina-evans-w-ella-frears","title":"Launch: Drunken Driving by Martina Evans w\/Ella Frears","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTuesday 9th June\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e6.30-9pm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eJoin Martina Evans to launch her new collection\u003cspan class=\"xapple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrunken Driving\u003c\/i\u003e in conversation with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eElla Frears (\u003ci\u003eGoodlord\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan class=\"xapple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShine, Darling\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eDrunken Driving\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e is the funny and subversive sequel to Martina Evans’s narrative poem\u003cspan class=\"xapple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Coming Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, set ten years on. Imelda, now a young mother, is married to Carl. When she gets a job in the X-ray Department at Pentonville Prison and learns to drive, her previous preoccupations with life and death and abuse of power are intensified within the prison walls.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe sonnets are ‘cuffed’ by quotes from Dracula and prison security rules, providing ironic commentary on the main narrative exploring issues of control. This timely collection delivers dark comedy as it raises serious questions about human society during the present international prison crisis, with the UK prison system on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartina Evans\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Irish poet and novelist. She grew up in County Cork and is the author of thirteen books of prose and poetry. American Mules (2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize and The Coming Thing (2023) was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize and PEN\/Heaney Prize. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and reviews poetry for the Irish Times. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003eHer forthcoming collection \u003ci\u003eDrunken Driving\u003c\/i\u003e (2026) is a Poetry Book Society Summer Choice. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElla Frears\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eShine, Darling\u003c\/em\u003e, shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize, and \u003cem\u003eGoodlord\u003c\/em\u003e, a hybrid work which takes the form of one long email to an estate agent, also shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The Courtauld, and a Poetry Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Frears’ poems have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Slovak, and Cornish. This September she begins a fellowship at the Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burley Fisher Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57241793757561,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/3385\/2310\/files\/ME_flyer.jpg?v=1778491384","url":"https:\/\/burleyfisherbooks.com\/products\/launch-drunken-driving-by-martina-evans-w-ella-frears","provider":"Burley Fisher Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}