American Mules by Martina Evans Vala Thorodds and range through the recurring

and range through the recurring violences of history and myth

presents Tomlinson to a new generation of  readers

subtly humorous

combining a troubadour’s musicality with full grasp of the moment

and Angela Jarman

American Mules by Martina Evans Vala Thorodds and range through the recurringMartina Evans's eponymous Mules are shoes brought to her as an exotic gift by an American relation. They suggest to her the possibility of a very different world, one which the poems' speakers set out to explore. As happens often in her poems, new and invented experiences throw into relief Evans's own intensely lived experiences: the radiography units of hospitals and their merciless work culture, in which the speakers must survive; a London densely