Katy Evans-Bush was born in New York City and has lived in London since she was 19. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. She is one of six poets featured in The Like of It, published in 2005 by Baring and Rogerson (London).

The Tawdry Halo of the Idle Martyr: MacNeice’s Autumn Journal

As Reviewed By: Katy Evans-Bush

In 1963, after Louis MacNeice’s premature death of pneumonia, Philip Larkin wrote that “his poetry was the poetry of our everyday life, of shop-windows, traffic policemen, ice-cream soda, lawn-mowers, and an uneasy awareness of what the news-boys were shouting .… continue reading...