Through The Glass Mountain

Using the unique narrative form of her dramatic poem, "Petrol", Martina Evans compresses her original novel, "The Glass Mountain", into a new book of cinematic prose poetry.  


It is the early 1980s in Cork City and women are on the streets protesting against the contraceptives ban. The eighteen-year old narrator, Maeve, has just left the convent and it is not going well. She is failing science and trying to be a punk while Daddy Hitler keeps telling her that she is on the Highway to Nowhere. Before Maeve can figure what road she should be travelling, she finds herself making a life or death decision. 


"She shoes an impressive command of what feels like the ideal narrative medium: individual moments and drive of narrative in perfect coordination." - Christopher Reid


Martina Evans is an Irish poet and novelist. She is the author of nine books of prose and poetry. "Facing the Public", her fourth poetry collection, was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year and received the Piero Ciampi International Poetry Prize in 2011. "Petrol", a dramatic prose poem, was published by Anvil Press in September 2012.