Author Description

<p>The poems in this chapbook form an individual sequence. At the same time, they present a new and longer section of an ongoing series. The Sea Quells responds to and continues Collecting Shells, which was published in 2011 with Oystercatcher Press and is included, in excerpt form, in the anthologies Sea Pie (Shearsman) and Dear World and Everyone In It (Bloodaxe).</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>"There is a new assurance in experimentation and an individual voice in Evans' work which seems to me an outcome, both of her deep understanding of women's poetry since modernism and of her 'first maturity' as a poet." -Frances Presley</p><p><br></p>