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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘The Weapon’ by Janet Frame (1924-2004), from Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe 2008).

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

A photo of Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy by Man Ray.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congratulations to John F. Deane, Lorna Goodison, Evan, Thomas McCarthy and Stav Poleg for being shortlisted for the #DerekWalcottPrize 2026 for Poetry in partnership with @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social Get 25% off shortlisted titles with the code DEREKWALCOTT25: tinyurl.com/3ekr4fw5

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very pleased to see my 'Men of the Same Name' @carcanet.bsky.social 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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A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social · 28/01/2020

Just picked up Evan Jones’ LATER EMPERORS (@Carcanet) from the @LRBbookshop and now am dyyying to review it. Have already telegraphed it to transatlantic boypoet operatic @RichieHof, but you all should consider this poem too:

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

surrealist (= wrong) map of the world. Helpful

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Very impressed by the James Last wall at Pandemonium Records in the Junction, Toronto.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People at the cinema annoyed I’m just sitting here whispering ’Ασíνην τε. . .

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

‘I don’t care: it’s not even pretty. The song is sad, and old, so old.’ -Ágota Kristóf

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am pleased to discover the German word, 'Korinthenkackerei' -- 'pooing raisins' (which are from Corinth) -- and meaning 'nit-picking'.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

C.P. Cavafy “Sometimes they speak in our dreams, sometimes the mind hears them.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Voices”, translated by Evan Jones.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

‘Just before his twentieth birthday he entered the Bank of England and there worked with distinction, whatever working with distinction in a bank may involve…’ If you are interested in poetry, the 19th century, lives of women in love, this book is heartbreaking, flippant and incisive all at once.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Fairfield Porter, View from the South Meadow, 1969, Oil on canvas,

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

'To A Young Poet' by A.J.M. Smith (1902-1980), published in Poetry, July 1934.

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The Lincoln Review @thelincolnreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Mapping memory. Finding meaning in fragments. Jena Schmitt’s artwork in The Lincoln Review draws together cartography, architecture, mythology, and botanical forms to create visual worlds that invite reflection. View Jena Schmitt’s complete collection in Issue 7 on our website. lincolnreview.org

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

'For many years I have made it a practice to learn some every day during my morning toilet...'

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The afternoon sun. #sunday #kirbyfairy Evan P. Jones + Kirby read Cavafy. @evanpjones.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social #thebarbariansarrivetoday youtu.be/vOChVM9RsOE?... www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410994...

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

‘Body my house / my horse my hound / what will I do / when you are fallen’. May Swenson’s ‘Question’, from the anthology ‘Home’ (2021), edited by Christian Wiman.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I'm in London on Sunday if anyone doesn't mind buying a ticket to hear me read some poems. Link below.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

An A.F. Moritz deep cut for his 79th birthday. ‘To the Still Unborn’ from The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018): ‘Was I hopeless because you were never thinking of me?’

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

‘The Unharmed’ by Robyn Sarah — ‘War has a long wake. Waves of two long wars / washed us up slapped and gasping…’ from A Day’s Grace (2003).

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

‘Mythology’ by Marilyn Hacker — ‘Ours / is not the high-school text.’

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Photo of a Greek soldier, arrived at Ellis Island in 1907, taken by amateur photographer Augustus Sherman (1865-1925).

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’m reading at the Cockpit in London on April 19th. Please come and see me and get me. www.culturematters.org.uk/re-enchant-p...

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Re-Enchant: Poetic Experiments For A New World, 5pm Sunday 19 April – Culture Matters

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Something Orphic for @poemakontsa.bsky.social — Bruce Taylor’s ‘Orphée’ from ‘No End In Strangeness: new and selected poems’.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

‘The world doesn’t crumble apart. / The general, and rewarding, illusion / Prevents it…’ Margaret Avison, Always Now: The Collected Poems (2003).

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

You can follow the poet Evan Jones, author of the last poems I posted, here @evanpjones.bsky.social The poems are from his first collection of poetry from 2003.

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A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I have always been an Iliad person, but reading Pavese’s Leucothea Dialogues has made me softer toward Odysseus again, made the many turnings shift a corner. It’s funny how Homeric commentary still works that way for readers after millennia…

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

More new Canadian poetry. More of Evan Jones. Who is into turning old myths into new myths. On the gates of Hades and other gates... Horn Gate It is not the sea you hear. Not one of the five rivers of Hades nor rain against the house you grew up in

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

More new Canadian poetry! (New to me and new as in recently published) A great re-reading of the Anteros myth, twin brother of Eros and god of reciprocal love. Anteros Evan Jones Imagine the breath inside you belonged to another. This might take some adjustment. Inhale.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Pleased to find my Men of the Same Name being read at Heron Books in Bristol: ‘[R]eading these [poems], one wants to devote close attention and time to his writing, his characters and the poet, to spot patterns in how we have lived for thousands of years, be curious, do something.’

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Departing the Writing Life – 16 January 2026

Writers, shy, aspiring, self-proclaimed or oft-published, should, I think, all read The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. Her account and analysis of writing, much of which includes recognising what m…

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