Post-Canadian poet, author of Men of the Same Name (@Carcanet), Cavafy translator. @GuardianBooks, @TLS, @PN_Review, @poetrymagazine. @evanpjones.bsky.social
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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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Jun 14
“I salute his courage and thank him for the gift of his life.”
– From “Homage to Cavafy” by Duane Michals (1932-2026).
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‘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 read poetry, love the 19th century, and admire the lives of women in love, this book is heartbreaking.
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Jun 12
“Lawrence Durrell published in one of his novels a poem by Cavafy, and I’d found Cavafy in the Bradford Library. It wasn’t on the shelf, because they didn’t want people reading these poems… so I got it out. And actually, I never took it back.”
– David Hockney (1937-2026)
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Fairfield Porter, View from the South Meadow, 1969, Oil on canvas,
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'To A Young Poet' by A.J.M. Smith (1902-1980), published in Poetry, July 1934.
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Maps. Ruins. Memory. Transformation.
Jena Schmitt’s artwork in The Lincoln Review Issue 7 blends history, architecture, mythology, and nature into richly layered visual narratives.
Explore her complete collection in Issue 7 on our website.
lincolnreview.org
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May 27
“Memory, hold on to what they were.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “Grey”, translated by @EvanPJones
#poetry #cavafy
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'For many years I have made it a practice to learn some every day during my morning toilet...'
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May 24
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"Quando invitai Ingeborg al viaggio di nozze"
La scrittrice pubblica un memoir dedicato all’amica Ingeborg Bachmann di cui ricorre il centenario dalla nascita.
Qui la racconta tra corse in go-kart, scherzi a Calvino e l ' incontro con Calasso
@chiara_valerio
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Apr 30
C.P.Cafavy The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose Trans Evan Jones @Carcanet
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‘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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I'm in London on Sunday if anyone doesn't mind buying a ticket to hear me read some poems. Link below.
I’m reading at the Cockpit in London on April 19th. Please come and see me and get me.
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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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Apr 10
“If I go there, into the church of the Greeks.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “In Church”, translated by @EvanPJones
#OrthodoxEaster #poetry
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‘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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‘Mythology’ by Marilyn Hacker — ‘Ours / is not the high-school text.’
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Photo of a Greek soldier, arrived at Ellis Island in 1907, taken by amateur photographer Augustus Sherman (1865-1925).
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