Description
An award-winning poet explodes the notion of translation, showing us the poem in a supple, malleable form
About the Author
Rowan Evans is a poet, composer and sound artist. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015 and his chapbook The Last Verses of Beccan (Guillemot Press, 2019) won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry. In 2022 he completed a practice-based PhD in modern poetry and early medieval languages at Royal Holloway University of London. This is his first collection.
Reviews
Formally inventive, rich in aslant borrowings, unafraid of visual and textual experiment, it is an exhilarating debut * Guardian *
Evans writes dispatches from a far country, where the English is Old, where the textures of life are an uncanny translation of our own political and existential divisions ... Evans knows that language can soothe and inflame * Poetry Book Society *
Praise for Rowan Evans: A tour de force of strategies pushing the lyric to its extreme; here, language is wrenched and stretched at every turn, and only in considering the sequence as a whole do we begin to comprehend the complex behaviours of its character, who is likewise driven to the limits ... Unnerving, disturbing and otherworldly, this is poetry of daring and, in spite of itself, sonic beauty -- Judges' Comments, Michael Marks Awards
Quietly seething * Times Literary Supplement *
In wave-gnawed whispers remnants of Gaelic, of Latin, of Old English are heard, words that survive only in manuscripts, or have shifted meaning, fallen out of use ... a concern for language, for memory and for relations of person to place * Stride Magazine *
A provocative and highly erudite work that can wrench our considerations to such a degree that we feel the need to consider our own standardizations of speech and their relation to the tongue of an other * 3:AM Magazine *
An excellent collection of new poetry that is unusual, intelligent, evocative, and full of rich musicality * BUZZ MAGAZINE *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526651228
Author Rowan Evans
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Bloomsbury Poetry
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC