My first collection returnsongs is published this month in the Wide Range chapbook series, edited by John Kinsella and funded by the Judith E Wilson fund, Cambridge University. The chapbook is made up of work written over the last six months, including the 'returnsong' sequence, plus a few poems from longer ago. These build upon the idea of material or sensory aggregation within the page field, where discreet units of utterance can infer networks of sense, narrative, scape.
The first print run is limited to a hundred copies: if you'd like a copy/ copies but are unlikely to see me in person, get in touch with your details and I can post them to you. Leave a message here or email me at rowan.p.evans@googlemail.com.
Sample poems below
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cover photo: Samuel Cowan Say
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from invocation
come the mudded, come
great aggregator
am bowl lordall fluid owl
pass caught in gyro wind
starling floors
her godcaked mouth
dawns not in focus
growing upward atria
:the back we walk is a cooling unit.
planet initiate wander
i slept albions ago
herdmother worked
from clove foot
road floor intersects
become clarion Birdly
in the drome head open lids
demilune/ gusher/ lud
utterance song
1
above i forgotten bird
fed points of correlation
today too thin-blooded
cannot hold to sun
tether to my waist in the market
with hands peach-stone limbs
here new litters of rain
make air audible
vermillion speakable
above i forgotten bird
2
for David
this eddies, we inhabit
in infinite space it's
ok to grow our hair
matter colour monochrome
in woodland a library of drystone
won't widen the distance
now perpetual nor
a lake unkit above.
lay edged the mendip tide & you
have moved a hand through water