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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)

@evanpjones.bsky.social

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Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Jun 27

I’m very happy to announce that my fourth collection of poems is out in the autumn. Details here:

www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017513...

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 2d

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

Can - Mother Sky

YouTube video by ark80

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Reposted by Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)

Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 7d

🏺'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
www.carcanet.co.uk/97818001.../...

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 8d

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.

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 8d

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome.

More info and free tickets:
www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

Select tickets – PN Review Autumn Readings 2025 – Castlefield Gallery

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Siné...

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 8d

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

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 12d

Also my goal with poetry.
#geraldmurnane #theplains

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 14d

Order here:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017513...

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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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 15d

I want more poets to read like this.

Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada.

YouTube video by nagusd

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 17d

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

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 18d

I am the reader. #highpotential

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 18d

'Werewolves of London'?

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 19d

Same beard.

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 25d

You come too.

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 25d

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Padraig Regan and Evan Jones!

More info and free tickets:
www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

Select tickets – PN Review Autumn Readings 2025 – Castlefield Gallery

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Siné...

www.tickettailor.com

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 27d

Capo Passero/Portus Pachyni

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Batagianni Gallery | Artists | Lena Athanasopoulou

Welcome to our gallery. From 1984 until now Vaso Batagianni Gallery collaborates with renowned Greek artists. Exhibitions of sculpture, engraving,visual and industrial objects completed the Gallery's ...

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 27d

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.

To order your copy of Men of the Same Name with 15% off the cover price and free UK postage, go to www.carcanet.co.uk and at the checkout enter the code: EJMOTSN15

Carcanet Press

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

www.carcanet.co.uk

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge

Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened?

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy pub day to poet Robyn Sarah's newest collection, WE'RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW. Keep an eye on this page in the next few days: we'll be announcing Robyn's upcoming tour dates!

www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

Moğollar - Eastern Love

YouTube video by Ahmed Yesevi

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Aug 31

At the printer now!

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Aug 28

Post-Werther-fame behaviour…

Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · Aug 28

Goethe showing critics how it’s done. #goethe

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