The Coming Thing

Shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2024. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2024. A TLS and The Irish Times Book of the Year. The 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 Tóibín. He says of her inimitable narrative style, 'Slowly, a poem that seems animated by random thoughts and images takes on a strange, concentrat