@EvanPJones

Post-Canadian poet, author of Men of the Same Name (@Carcanet), Cavafy translator. @GuardianBooks, @TLS, @PN_Review, @poetrymagazine. @evanpjones.bsky.social

 Manchester, UK
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Joined September 2013
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Dear friends. My new book in which I consider lost books, burned libraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philosophers, Paris, statues of Niobe, patterns in history, war, displacement, the evils of ambition, and Pachynian tuna is out in the world next month.
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Karen Solie reading from Wellwater (@picadorbooks) at the John Rylands Library, Manchester last night.
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All this Anne Carson discourse leaves me with just one question: what kind of week is Margaret Atwood’s PA having?
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Anne Carson translates the Québécois poet, Émile Nelligan (1879-1941). First published in @LRB.
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‘Long Boat’ by Norm Sibum, from Blue Neptune (2026).
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Is this ‘swag’? Have I used that word correctly? Ok. #janetframe #mathiasenard @FitzcarraldoEds
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‘The Weapon’ by Janet Frame (1924-2004), from Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe 2008).
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Very pleased to see my 'Men of the Same Name' @Carcanet among so many excellent books on the Derek Walcott Prize 2026 finalist list. If you haven't got a copy, and would like one signed and sent by post, please dm me.
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Tom D’Evelyn@TomDEvelynSep 4
Cavafy vs the Barbarians of modernity who refused to see “place” as irreplaceable, who celebrated the chaos of abstracting “the pleasant environment” from our concrete SENSE of being. Here Cavafy acknowledges “the foundations of my emotions.” It’s a brave, an essential, lyric.
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I like the part in The French Connection where the French baddies go to a French restaurant in NYC and eat snails, so the viewer knows for sure they’re French.
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#skunks #etobicoke
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Very impressed by the James Last wall at Pandemonium Records in the Junction, Toronto.
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People at the cinema annoyed I’m just sitting here whispering ’Ασíνην τε. . .
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‘I don’t care: it’s not even pretty. The song is sad, and old, so old.’ -Ágota Kristóf
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I am pleased to discover the German word, 'Korinthenkackerei' -- 'pooing raisins' (which are from Corinth) -- and meaning 'nit-picking'.
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Canadian friends, I’m going to be in Toronto this summer and will have some copies of my ‘Men of the Same Name’. If you’d like to me to post you a signed copy, please dm me. I’ll try to keep costs around $20…it has a terrific cover and there are some poems inside too.
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Tom D’Evelyn@TomDEvelynJul 11
Cafavy’s poetry is full of secrets. The poetry is in the prismatic expression. The someone, the attention, the erotic body (transparent to the divinity), the sculpture, the height, tender facial features: we see the creature unfold in spirit and flesh—the mystery of its maker.
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New Verse Review@newversereviewJun 30
Today at NVR, @DanielCowper interviews Jason Guriel about fandom, criticism, and sci-fi verse novels!👇
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Daryl Hine: [P.K. Page's] 'After Rain' concludes with a prayer that should be that of any poet or translator.
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Brooke Clark@thatbrookeclarkJun 22
For a belated #fathersday, a poem I wrote for my father (& for all fathers baffled by their children’s literary aspirations). After #Martial from my @FitzWhits book Urbanities
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I am once again asking who has been cast as Palamedes.
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