getting lost

for stephen

(near stroud, december)

Archive of the Now

A full recording of Maggie O'Sullivan, Caitlin Doherty, Redell Olsen and myself reading in Cambridge, 2.5.13, is now available to listen and download on The Archive of the Now, a digital collection of poets reading their own work, here:

http://www.archiveofthenow.org/reading-series/?i=6

Many thanks again to all the poets for the reading, a longtime planned, and to Andrea Brady for hosting the recording which includes a rare, full performance of O'Sullivan's murmur: tasks of mourning  (Veer, 2011). The Archive also features new-spangled author pages, where further recordings and info will appear:

http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=157&f=1863#1863

CONTINGENCIES

Two poems published in November in CONTINGENCIES (Contingency Press, 2012) with work from David Grundy, Lisa Jeschke, Luke McMullan and Sophie Seita. A limited number of copies are available – please contact me or contingencypress@gmail.com for more information. x

from deixis


call out lush rocks of the dead.  all of us began

o black of black in raucous lip saturnian eye

non particular catechisms spurred in abate

& known in imitation. splitten conifers part

dropt gait like hurt under chain oil & preen. 

dead birds seldom in my switching glade

written to the burial track, july

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtNPzaHO7k

Halfcircle 4

Two of my poems, 'utterance song' and 'wulf ode', are published in Halfcircle 4 with work from:

Sofia Stevi, Peter Manson, Jennifer Cooke, Ian Heames*, John Ashbery, Ed Luker, Linus Slug, Elizabeth Willis, Anatol Knotek, Juha Virtanen, John DeWitt, Connie Scozzaro, Alice Notley, Luke McMullan, Posie Rider, Leanne Bridgewater, Simon Jarvis, Caitlin Doherty, Peter Gizzi, Sean Bonney, SJ Fowler, Sophie Seita, Adam Weg, Mike Wallace-Hadrill*, Marianne Morris, nick-e melville, Pocahontas Mildew-Hind, Caroline Bergvall, bruno neiva, Nat Raha, David Grundy, Josh Stanley, Matthias Regan, Frances Kruk & Steve Willey

You can get copies here:

http://www.halfcircle.org/Halfcircle_4.html

Many thanks to Tom Graham 

x

'returnsongs' publication

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

enjoy 

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cover photo: Samuel Cowan Say

                                                                                              

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 

three new poems

A few things from December, January and the past few weeks. The first two are untitled, the third one, 'effect of landing' is a pdf HERE. Enjoy x

dogharp leading, dole out 

vista. cyclone spirit of M road.

hermost valley is burnpoint 

expecting larch, expecting I

in ton of lighting. shakespeard

beech engine (dove croft

becoming fugue) pilots trout &

this course undercuts think of origin.

raisers needing bind, but copt out

(Bes the sculptor, sacred mudlark)

4.55 – all cold – don’t know

what to when I orient rain lapse

(unwickt & weatherd).   

carol or creed that, songish tint   

to write frost, wen

icon other.

let it claim tables

let it alone.

write frost, charm

alter.

vision this

when less

openly infer

walk, cross

must.

the damage you gave

is shook.

near it.

with frost

this shape

surmounts

think on it, wheel.