American Mules: tracing ancestors In the 1960s

In the 1960s

with her intelligence and endearing quirks

using everyday materials from around the house

Simply brush water over the black and white designs to reveal an array of uplifting colours

American Mules: tracing ancestors In the 1960sMartina 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