People at the cinema annoyed I’m just sitting here whispering ’Ασíνην τε. . .
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)
@evanpjones.bsky.social
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.
‘I don’t care: it’s not even pretty. The song is sad, and old, so old.’ -Ágota Kristóf
I am pleased to discover the German word, 'Korinthenkackerei' -- 'pooing raisins' (which are from Corinth) -- and meaning 'nit-picking'.
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.
C.P. Cavafy “Sometimes they speak in our dreams, sometimes the mind hears them.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Voices”, translated by Evan Jones.
Daryl Hine: [P.K. Page's] 'After Rain' concludes with a prayer that should be that of any poet or translator.
‘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.
Marilyn Hacker does Cavafy in the 1990s.
The Yale Review@yalereview.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Elderly friends take lovers, rent studios, plan trips to unpronounceable provinces. Fifty makes the ironic wager that his biographer will outlive him—” From “Days of 1994: Alexandrians” by Marilyn Hacker, a poem in TYR’s archives, originally published in 1996:
Fairfield Porter, View from the South Meadow, 1969, Oil on canvas,
'To A Young Poet' by A.J.M. Smith (1902-1980), published in Poetry, July 1934.
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
'For many years I have made it a practice to learn some every day during my morning toilet...'
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...
‘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.
I'm in London on Sunday if anyone doesn't mind buying a ticket to hear me read some poems. Link below.
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)@evanpjones.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’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...
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?’
Best Star Trek Crew, wrong answers only
Roger Rimbaud@rogerday.bsky.social · 4mo agoBest Star Trek Crew, wrong answers only
‘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).
‘Mythology’ by Marilyn Hacker — ‘Ours / is not the high-school text.’
‘Heraclitus on Rivers’ by Derek Mahon
Photo of a Greek soldier, arrived at Ellis Island in 1907, taken by amateur photographer Augustus Sherman (1865-1925).
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...
Re-Enchant: Poetic Experiments For A New World, 5pm Sunday 19 April – Culture Matters
culturematters.org.uk
Something Orphic for @poemakontsa.bsky.social — Bruce Taylor’s ‘Orphée’ from ‘No End In Strangeness: new and selected poems’.
‘The world doesn’t crumble apart. / The general, and rewarding, illusion / Prevents it…’ Margaret Avison, Always Now: The Collected Poems (2003).
