I'm in London on Sunday if anyone doesn't mind buying a ticket to hear me read some poems. Link below.

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?’

There is a beautiful hardback edition of the poems of his partner, Nikos Stangos.

Best Star Trek Crew, wrong answers only

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#cavafy #orthodoxeaster

‘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

Same energy. #frankohara

I also have a Turkish translation, if that interests — but can’t figure out who the translator is…

The Barbarians Arrive Today A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020 With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic Engl...

Can I make this suggestion?

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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.

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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).

You can follow the poet Evan Jones, author of the last poems I posted, here
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The poems are from his first collection of poetry from 2003.

I have always been an Iliad person, but reading Pavese’s Leucothea Dialogues has made me softer toward Odysseus again, made the many turnings shift a corner. It’s funny how Homeric commentary still works that way for readers after millennia…

More new Canadian poetry.
More of Evan Jones. Who is into turning old myths into new myths.
On the gates of Hades and other gates...

Horn Gate

It is not the sea you hear. Not one of the five rivers of Hades nor rain against the house you grew up in

More new Canadian poetry! (New to me and new as in recently published)

A great re-reading of the Anteros myth, twin brother of Eros and god of reciprocal love.

Anteros
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Imagine the breath inside you belonged to another. This might take some adjustment. Inhale.

Wait until he publishes his first book of poems. #TimothéeChalamet

Departing the Writing Life – 16 January 2026 Writers, shy, aspiring, self-proclaimed or oft-published, should, I think, all read The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. Her account and analysis of writing, much of which includes recognising what m…

Pleased to find my Men of the Same Name being read at Heron Books in Bristol:
‘[R]eading these [poems], one wants to devote close attention and time to his writing, his characters and the poet, to spot patterns in how we have lived for thousands of years, be curious, do something.’

Best Wuthering Heights Adaption: Cliff Richard's Heathcliff YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

Only one Heathcliff.

oh Mrs Potato Head we love you get up

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Listening to the reissue of Return of the Durutti Column and read this:

First released in January 1980 in a sandpaper sleeve, assembled by members of Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, and others. While Ian Curtis did the glueing, the other members of Joy Division watched a porn movie in the same room.

Grateful for this review in London Grip by Ian Pople: ‘Evan Jones can see that poetic truth has its own validities and that reaching towards that truth is its own ever valuable pursuit.’

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I'm very happy to see Men of the Same Name @carcanet.bsky.social on this longlist!