Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)
@evanpjones.bsky.social
Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
A little Apollinaire, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic, CBEditions 2012.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A little Apollinaire, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic, CBEditions 2012.
The current bid for Florian Schneider’s Baronia Bielefeld Tandem bicycle is US$200 and I would consider timeshare options if anyone wants to go on with me. #kraftwerk
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The current bid for Florian Schneider’s Baronia Bielefeld Tandem bicycle is US$200 and I would consider timeshare options if anyone wants to go on with me. #kraftwerk
Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
Excitement continues in the social media multiverse. @carcanet.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Excitement continues in the social media multiverse. @carcanet.bsky.social
Would someone like to go in with me to buy Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk’s Baronia Bielefield Tandem bicycle? Current bid US $50.
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Would someone like to go in with me to buy Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk’s Baronia Bielefield Tandem bicycle? Current bid US $50.
Meanwhile in another social media universe… @carcanet.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Meanwhile in another social media universe… @carcanet.bsky.social
Hey @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social, do you get a kickback for this?
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hey @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social, do you get a kickback for this?
A portrait of Cavafy in Christopher Middleton’s Collected Later Poems (@carcanet.bsky.social 2014).
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A portrait of Cavafy in Christopher Middleton’s Collected Later Poems (@carcanet.bsky.social 2014).
A photo of me reading from ‘Men of the Same Name’ at the @pnreview.bsky.social event, Castlefield Gallery.
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A photo of me reading from ‘Men of the Same Name’ at the @pnreview.bsky.social event, Castlefield Gallery.
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Your country is going to hell. You should buy a book.
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Your country is going to hell. You should buy a book.
Same beard.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Same beard.
Capo Passero/Portus Pachyni
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Capo Passero/Portus Pachyni
It’s Goethe’s birthday. Here’s a photo of a window in Tübingen out of which he threw up.
August 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It’s Goethe’s birthday. Here’s a photo of a window in Tübingen out of which he threw up.
‘You’re usually doing somersaults whenever there’s something you really want to see or grasp…’
-Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina (translated by Philip Boehm)
-Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina (translated by Philip Boehm)
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
‘You’re usually doing somersaults whenever there’s something you really want to see or grasp…’
-Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina (translated by Philip Boehm)
-Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina (translated by Philip Boehm)
My favorite Doctor and companions.
August 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My favorite Doctor and companions.
There is a bookstore on the Danforth called The Scribe, and on Saturday, closed for stocktaking, they left piles of books outside. I found this issue of the Southern Review from 1975, featuring a poem by one Michael Schmidt. @carcanet.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There is a bookstore on the Danforth called The Scribe, and on Saturday, closed for stocktaking, they left piles of books outside. I found this issue of the Southern Review from 1975, featuring a poem by one Michael Schmidt. @carcanet.bsky.social
This takes up the space of like ten books in a small bookshop poetry section. #mariashriver
August 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This takes up the space of like ten books in a small bookshop poetry section. #mariashriver
Book hunting in Toronto. #lukehathaway @biblioasis.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Book hunting in Toronto. #lukehathaway @biblioasis.bsky.social
Reminded of this Edwin Morgan poem today. #edwinmorgan @carcanet.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Reminded of this Edwin Morgan poem today. #edwinmorgan @carcanet.bsky.social
There are Oasis posters and paraphernalia all over the Manchester city centre but I’m at the Jessica Pratt gig at New Century so all fine.
July 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
There are Oasis posters and paraphernalia all over the Manchester city centre but I’m at the Jessica Pratt gig at New Century so all fine.
Mompou Monday.
July 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Mompou Monday.