Listening to the reissue of Return of the Durutti Column and read this: First released in January 1980 in a sandpaper sleeve, assembled by members of Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, and others. While Ian Curtis did the glueing, the other members of Joy Division watched a porn movie in the same room.

Grateful for this review in London Grip by Ian Pople: ‘Evan Jones can see that poetic truth has its own validities and that reaching towards that truth is its own ever valuable pursuit.’ londongrip.co.uk/2026/01/lond...

I'm very happy to see Men of the Same Name @carcanet.bsky.social on this longlist!

@carcanet.bsky.social #cavafy

PC to IB: ‘In any case, why America? Is it really so important to gather experience in a place where it is so often measured by success?’ @seagullbooks.bsky.social

Happy new year from Garmisch-Partenkirchen! Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! Καλή χρονιά!

Literary celebrity. #goethe

Bring it. #christmasgoesbaroque #naxos

Merry Christmas everybody! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Χρόνια Πολλά! Frohe Weihnachten!

I believe it was Rilke who wrote, Du mußt deinen Garten ändern.

I wrote about the current state of things for the last @lrb.co.uk of the year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The fine people @carcanet.bsky.social posted this launch (hosted by Jim Johnstone) of EVAN JONES @evanpjones.bsky.social MEN OF THE SAME NAME, one of our favourite reads of 2025. youtu.be/XAbPlAwMVSE?...

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The artist Albert Coers has has created a memorial for the members of the Mann family, all exiled during the Nazis’ reign of terror, in Munich behind the Literaturhaus.

Well, well, well. #poetsandplayers @carcanet.bsky.social

Mary Ann Caws’ translations can be a bit on the nose, but this René Char poem would stand out anyway. From René Char: Selected Poems (New Directions 1992).

This is very good every day but especially Tuesday afternoon in wet December Manchester. #anouarbrahem #ecm

The recording of the online book launch held for Men of the Same Name by Evan Jones, hosted by Jim Johnstone, is up on our YouTube now! Click below to watch ⬇️ youtu.be/XAbPlAwMVSE

A lovely picture of Carcanet poet @evanpjones.bsky.social reading from his collection Men of the Same Name at a Poets & Players event in Manchester last weekend!

A drawing from last night’s NFA reading at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social by Akinyemi Oludele.

What a wonderful opportunity to get hold of @carcanet.bsky.social #poetry titles at 20% discount … just add CARCMAS at the checkout … Do buy copies of my three books (Eleanor; A Kingdom of Love & my Rossetti Selected), but also buy everyone else’s books too …

A poem by Wilfred Watson (1925-1998), to date the only Canadian poet published by Faber? From Friday’s Child (Faber 1955), reprinted in Apocalypse: an anthology (Carcanet 2020), edited by James Kerry. @carcanet.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

One of the great Christmas records. #jameslast

Earlier today. Thanks to Poets & Players inviting me to read.

On Thursday 4 December at 6.30pm, join Evan Jones in Manchester for the Northern Fiction Alliance Winter Showcase. Evan will be reading from his latest Carcanet collection Men of the Same Name, alongside 4 other authors from other northern presses. Tickets:⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

You have your Christmas traditions and I have mine.

In which a New Zealander writes about a fire likely still burning. From Collected Poems of Bill Manhire, Carcanet Press, 2001. @carcanet.bsky.social @pacificraft.bsky.social

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It's Neil Young's 80th birthday and I am reminded that we attended the same high-school. And that Françoise Hardy covered this song. #neilyoung

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

Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.

This is our today.

A few words about my new book on the @carcanet.bsky.social substack.

Aw, Lô Borges has left us. 'Clube da Esquina' (1972) is one of those perfect, unexpected albums. Like "Exile on Main Street' but more solid and less addiction.

This is tomorrow. 7pm in the UK and 2pm in Toronto and 2am in Taiwan. Please come and see me.

I have a couple of poems from my new book in the current issue of Image. Thank you to editor @akasomeguy.bsky.social for including these.

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.

You could own the Panasonic bicycle that Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider rode in the 1984 music video for a remix of ‘Tour de France’. thequietus.com/news/auction...

Meanwhile in another social media universe… @carcanet.bsky.social

Yes, please join me.

Hey @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social, do you get a kickback for this?

You should definitely book tickets to this. There is no reason not to.

A portrait of Cavafy in Christopher Middleton’s Collected Later Poems (@carcanet.bsky.social 2014).

The online launch of my new collection, Men of the Same Name, is Tuesday 4 November, 7pm in the UK, 3pm in Toronto. Jim Johnstone is hosting and will I hope talk with me about poetry. It will be better than New York but not as good as Montreal.

There's NewPoetry today from Kiki Dimoula, trans. Evan Jones (@evanpjones.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/10/20/a...

If you are not busy, please come along.