Evan Jones (Canadian poet) explained

Evan Jones (born 1973 in Weston, York, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and critic. He completed his secondary education at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto. In 2003, he was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards for Poetry.[1] He is currently a creative writing teacher at the University of Bolton, where he resides full-time.

Works

Poetry

Anthologies

Awards

Reviews

The words ‘exciting’ and ‘necessary’ are too often bandied about when a new(-ish) writer surfaces, but this book is both of these things. Jones reintroduces surrealism back into the mainstream of British poetry, but he also does something new. He shows that surrealism can deal with identity in a way which is contemporary and responsive to the internationalised lives which are lead in the twenty-first century.[9]

Paralogues is a remarkable second collection: other Canadian poets use Europe as a kind of arena for their lyric experiments - Don Coles’ Sweden, or the classical world as re-interpreted by Anne Carson or Norm Sibum – but Jones’s poems are much more tangled and materially dense than the work of his older compatriots. .[10]

External links

Notes and References

  1. [2003 Governor General's Awards#Poetry]
  2. Web site: Nothing Fell Today But Rain. Fitzhenry and Whiteside. 2010-11-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20120314020319/http://www.fitzhenry.ca/detail.aspx?ID=9218. 2012-03-14. dead.
  3. Web site: Paralogues. Carcanet Press. 2012-03-28.
  4. Web site: The Drawing, the Ship, the Afternoon. Anstruther Press. 2020-01-29.
  5. Web site: Later Emperors. Carcanet Press. 2020-01-29.
  6. Web site: Introductions: Poets Present Poets. Fitzhenry and Whiteside. 2010-11-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110718010551/http://www.fitzhenry.ca/detail.aspx?ID=9154. 2011-07-18. dead.
  7. Web site: Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Myth Poetry. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 2020-01-29.
  8. Web site: Governor General's Literary Awards, Finalists Poetry 2003. The Canada Council for Arts. 2010-11-06.
  9. Evan Jones Paralogues Review. The Manchester Review . Ian Pople. 2012.
  10. The Future Past: Evan Jones' Paralogues and Cavafy Review. The Carcanet Blog. John McAuliffe. 2012.

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