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Poetry. Lyric or narrative in character, these poems are stitched through by the search for significance in the particular, whether at a train-station, draining a radiator, or eating chips, or on the alternative uses of Tipp-Ex, how not to take stairs, the joys of metal-detecting, or the vertigo of jet-lag. This sense of immanence below the surface, just beyond reach, is addressedthrough themes of family, memory, history, illness and recovery, travel, and exploration. This questioning, "sustained gaze," casts a steady, sombre eye over the everyday, but with care, candour and lightness, too.
About the author
Ken Evans won this year's Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition and The Battered Moons Competition (2016). Last year, Ken was included in an anthology of
Best New British & Irish Poets, edited by Luke Kennard. Kennard referred to his featured poem as a hypnotic exercise in imagination and compassion. Evans first pamphlet,
The Opposite of Defeat, featured work from his shortlisted collection in The Poetry School's / Nine Arches Press Primers Competition, which also shortlisted in Bare Fiction's debut competition. TRUE FORENSICS is his first poetry collection.
