To An Occupier Burning Holes by Ken Evans

To An Occupier Burning Holes by Ken Evans

Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant – Evans’s poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin lorries, bullet-pierced road signs, to love’s strains and pleasures. As entertaining as they are impressive, these poems are in and of the physical world, brimming with ideas and passion and sharing it all with real panache.

This is poetry with energy and vision, displaying a forensic accuracy of metaphor and image to deliver writing which disturbs, delights and moves the reader, often all at once

-- David Harmer * Orbis *

To An Occupier Burning Holes is above all a well-observed collection, in which Evans seems to “really see” what he writes about, yet here he acknowledges the limits of language and poetry. Within these confines, though, this is a poet who uses his considerable craft to treat of themes and issues in a carefully personal way. Overall, an individual and distinctive collection.

-- Tim Murphy * The Friday Poem *

There’s a difficulty in reviewing a collection of poems in which the perspective shifts between an ostensibly dispassionate survey of international crises and the intimacy of human and family relationships, especially when the poet also displays considerable formal variety in response to the themes he explores. Yet the world as it is now seems to demand our attention, while our nearest connections, if we are fortunate, draw out our capacity for warmth and, inevitably, grief at loss. Ken Evans’ new collection spans this wide range and a review can give only a small flavour of the variety within.

-- Kathleen Bell * The High Window *

John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), Insomnia (Picador, 2019; WW Norton, 2020), and Brimstone: Villanelles (Arc, 2020). He is also the author of numerous works of fiction, memoir and criticism, and a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, artists and musicians. Peepal tree has published the cycle of works he as co-written with Kwame Dawes. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia. His many prizes and awards include the Australian Prime Minster's Award for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, as well as PBS special commendations, recommendations and a choice for Armour (Picador, 2011). He is a well-known environmental, human rights, and also animal rights activist.

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ISBN 13	9781784632700
ISBN 10	1784632708
Title	To An Occupier Burning Holes
Author	Ken Evans
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2022-10-15
Number of pages	96
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