Can Dentists Be Trusted?Paperback, 1 November 2004

Martina Evans's third collection of poems begins and ends in the dentist's chair. In between come stories ranging from an Irish childhood to present-day London, featuring voices from the poet's own to those of her family, her cat, and a supporting cast of hectoring lawyers, born bores and rambling mothers. She combines a novelist's gift for creating compelling narratives and capturing conversational idiosyncracies with a poet's ability to condense and refine, making Can Dentists Be Trusted? a book that will delight the many who enjoyed its acclaimed predecessor All Alcoholics Are Charmers (1998).