Drunken Driving by Martina Evans PRE-ORDER
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2026 Mónica de la Torre family conflict and mental illness

family conflict and mental illness

It is a delight and a rich satisfaction to stray in the remarkable life and beauty of its lines

Animal extinctions are likened to failed businesses and sainthood is granted to a dubious character named Michael Mouse

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Drunken Driving by Martina Evans PRE-ORDER<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2026</b> Mónica de la Torre family conflict and mental illnessPublished 25 June 2026 Drunken Driving is the funny and subversive sequel to Martina Evanss narrative poem The Coming Thing, 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. The sonnets are cuffed by quotes from Dracula and prison security