Table of Contents

Biographical Note Alive in the Twentieth Century: Introduction from Young Commonwealth Poets '65 (1965) The Valley from February (1971) A Praise for Rhiannon from Taldir Poems The Hierarchies of Sound Launch the Mind into Space You yourself are what befalls and astonishes youA" Two Nature Poems 1st Imaginary Love Poem from True Grit (1970) Plans Instructions for Opening the Box Love Telescope Shooting Star from Prokofiev's Concerto (1975) How Slowly The Variations (Mozart's String Quintet in G minor) Nachtmusik Cwm Cadian Polish Rider Broadway & West 70th from The Manual for the Perfect Organisation of Tourneys (1979) 1945 Ode For Barnett Newman Two Sonnets Dark & The Manual for the Perfect Organisation of Tourneys from 6 Watercolours by Peter Bailey Of Gardens Infamous Doctrine Extempore from Sweet Lucy (1983) Sweet Lucy from Late Night Moves: A Coupl'a Quips Ode to Magnus Volk Transport One Way Mirror Summer in the City from The Sofa Book (1987) from The Empty Hill: memories and praises of Paul Evans (1992) Brightoniana from Romantic Relics (uncollected, written ca. 1982-1986) The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket Lines Addressed to Ifor Davies Half-Baked Juvenile The Empty Hill Talking with Dewi The Mountain Suite Two Pieces of Water for Sally Romantic Relics

About the Author

Paul Evans was born in Cardiff in 1945, where his father was a vicar, although the family moved later to Surrey. He studied English at Sussex between 1963-5. In 1971, February, the first of his four full-length collections, containing work stretching back to the mid-1960s, was published by Fulcrum and received the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize from the Poetry Society in 1972. During the 1970s and 1980s he worked at many part-time academic, teaching and bibliographical jobs, but chiefly administered the American Studies Resource Centre at the Polytechnic of Central London, where he organised poetry conferences until 1988. In 1979, Evans moved to Liverpool, and worked both there and in London, including part-time work for the University of Liverpool and the Windows Project. Windows published The Mountain Suite, with illustrations by frequent collaborator Peter Bailey, in Liverpool in 1982, which dealt with his love of mountain climbing.