Things You Don't Know About You

This is the third collection by British poet, Richard Evans. In numerous guises, Evans prompts us to question what dwells hidden beneath the surface of identity. With characteristic wry-humour, sensitivity and depth, these poems shed light on broken lives and lives breaking through into bright new territories. John Haynes (winner of the Costa Book Award 2006) wrote of the collection: "Fascinating poems that sink through the ordinary things you don't know about you into their very earth, stones, tides, skies, and levers, until they, and you, are as astonishing as 'ordinariness' itself. The true work of poetry."This collection contains two McLellan prize-winning poems, 'Paperchains' and 'Two Truths'. ~~~"A poet willing to take risks and push language to its limits" - Catherine Smith ~~~ "Absorbing and enlightening . . . These are richly authentic poems, rhythmically taut, alive with clarity and vision" - Anne Rouse