Evan Jones

Canadian poet Evan Jones [Ευριπίδης Ιωάννου] lives in Manchester. His first collection of poetry, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He co-edited Modern Canadian Poets (2010) and has since published Paralogues (2012) and Later Emperors (2020). His translation from the Modern Greek, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose of C.P. Cavafy (2020), was a TLS Book of the Year.

‘Men of the Same Name is a wry and highly aware account of our times by a poet so steeped in the classical world that ours feels almost ghostlike and transparent in comparison. Evan Jones conjures up a powerful imaginary space in which to eavesdrop on his mythic characters.’

-Sasha Dugdale

'Evan Jones is an intelligent, allusive poet who has elegantly synthesized his roots in Greek culture. These quietly serious poems throw up glimpses of dream and myth, and do so in a context of real thoughtfulness, free of rhetoric but rich in formal control.'

-Fiona Sampson