Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)

YouTube video by ark80 Can - Mother Sky

Is that a young Seamus Heaney seated, watching Can perform 'Mother Sky' in Soest in 1970?

A photo of me reading from ‘Men of the Same Name’ at the @pnreview.bsky.social event, Castlefield Gallery.

🏺'A wry account of our times by a poet so steeped in the classical world that ours feels almost ghostlike and transparent in comparison. @evanpjones.bsky.social conjures up a powerful imaginary space in which to eavesdrop on his mythic characters.’ – Sasha Dugdale
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On Thursday October 2nd, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Heiromartyr Cyprian and the Martyr Justina (Κυπριανός & Ίουστίνη). There is also a poetry reading in Manchester.

A surprising amount named for the chicken: Bantam, Chicken House, Golden Cockerel, Leghorn…

Also my goal with poetry.
#geraldmurnane #theplains

Men of the Same Name Men of the Same Name is satirical, elegiac and memorable, bringing together lost books, burned libraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philoso...

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Your country is going to hell. You should buy a book.

YouTube video by nagusd Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada.

I want more poets to read like this.

Then it’s definitely’Tally Ho’ by the Clean.

I am the reader. #highpotential

'Werewolves of London'?

Same beard.

You come too.

Capo Passero/Portus Pachyni

The cover art is a detail from a collage by Lena Athanasopoulou.

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Carcanet Press One of the outstanding literary publishers of our time, Carcanet Press has a special emphasis on poetry from around the world.

Dear friends. My new book of poetry, Men of the Same Name, is out in the world next month and you can preorder it from the publisher.

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How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened?

As someone who can’t understand how @pitchfork.com reviews something like fifteen albums a week and each is rated 7.0 or better, this hits hard.

There is a new Robyn Sarah book out and I urge you to buy a copy and send it to me so I can read it. Please hurry. Maybe buy two so you can have one, I guess. I don't like to share.

But the Marvin Gaye-Tammi Terrell version...!?!

YouTube video by Ahmed Yesevi Moğollar - Eastern Love

Really hoping Peter Jackson will produce a Moğollar documentary next...

At the printer now!

Post-Werther-fame behaviour…

Goethe showing critics how it’s done. #goethe

It’s Goethe’s birthday. Here’s a photo of a window in Tübingen out of which he threw up.

In which I say a few things about a new Cavafy biography and the Keeley-Sherrard translations of his poetry.

The poet and his cities Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863–1933): a poet of obscure history and an eroticism so gentle, it seems odd to call it eroticism at all. A civil servant in the irrigation department of the city of Alexa...

In which I say a few things about a new Cavafy biography and the Keeley-Sherrard translations of his poetry. @thetls.bsky.social

PN Review Autumn Readings 2025 - Carcanet Press Please join us at Castlefield Gallery for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira

Hello. I’ll be reading at this event in Manchester. Please come along.

‘You’re usually doing somersaults whenever there’s something you really want to see or grasp…’

-Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina (translated by Philip Boehm)