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pcevans.bsky.social
Poet, writer and translator.
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My new poetry collection 'Grey time' comes out in July 2025 and I am on the lookout for reading opportunities - preferably paid (at least travel and accommodation) as money is tight. If you run an event and would like to know more about me/my collection do shout! ninearchespress.com/publications...

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday a dream came true, my first novel My Hummingbird Father was fully & deeply reviewed in the Guardian by Sana Goyal, who got to the heart. It took me so many years to write. Thank you @sanagoyalkotecha.bsky.social thank you @saltpublishing.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2024. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

This. By Zbigniew Herbert www.nybooks.com/articles/198...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

I just had a chat with a bot or scammer posing as the author Elizabeth Strout. When I declined their 'help', they suddenly turned into a 'deleted account'.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Here we are: DELTRANS. Dutch-to-English translators getting together to discuss the sudden drop-off in work, the uses and misuses of AI, editing and publicity. Thanks to the Amsterdam Vertalershuis for hosting us. @davidcolmer.bsky.social (anyone else on bsky yet?)

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

The first recorded lines of poetry in Dutch, in an 11th century manuscript: ‘Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hic enda thu wat unbidan we nu?.’ ‘Do all of the birds have nests, but for you and me; well, what are we waiting for?’ From @pcevans.bsky.social Grand Larcenies @carcanet.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

There are things that break you as a poet and writer. Often you can’t even mention them. All you can do is go back to the work, the writing process will help you survive, go back & every single improvement will help to save you, keep going, the art is what matters, not the rest.

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

A short film that my sister Heather Benning made with @chadgalloway.bsky.social on the decommissioning of her sculptural installation, "The Dollhouse" nsi-canada.ca/film/the-dol...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

submitted 116 days ago • 32 comments

I'm in the early stages of organising some sort of network for people who are actively translating poetry, and publishing (or hoping to publish) their translations. If you might be interested, be in touch. And do please forward/retweet!

submitted 184 days ago • 3 comments