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Oscar & Henry
Oscar & Henry, a pamphlet, is out this January from Rack Press. You can order it from Rack Press, direct from me, or from Amazon.
"For Henry, having two countries meant staged risk, and privacy. For
Oscar, having the world meant everything bet on the one toss. In a
20's Modernist trope, this sequence hints at big unanalysed scandals
by almost making them cockney rhyming slang: Evans-Bush shows us Two
Great Late Victorians through the prism of the 1920s, even while she
looks back 90 years at the Modernists, in a double manoeuvre.
In literary judgment we think about sex, but in our own lives we think
about love. An equal attention to Henry James and Oscar Wilde at once
can illuminate both. Henry remains, at this stage, Evans-Bush's object
of quiet love: touchstone to a vision of love that is the secret, and
the secret joy of these poems."
Ira Lightman
Me and the Dead
Me and the Dead was published by Salt Publishing in July 2008 and Highly Commended in the 2010 Forward Prize anthology.
"The most exciting news in contemporary poetry is not English or American but a mid-Atlantic, old-and-new-world marriage of the two, renewing the verbal contract. In her saucy, brilliant debut, Katy Evans-Bush proves one of the brightest offspring of this marriage... She deserves to be read everywhere."
David Mason, book endorsement
"A successful Evans-Bush poem has the momentum of a multi-plot novel."
Kate Bingham, Poetry London
"I couldn’t put it down! Very absorbing and satisfying at many levels."
Ian Duhig, book endorsement
"Katy Evans-Bush has that remarkable quality of making me want to read poetry for fun."
Ben Locker, North Meadow Media
My second full collection will be out with Salt in late 2010.
The Like Of It
Six rising poets in an anthology published by Baring & Rogerson, 2005. Buy it on Amazon.
"Katy Evans-Bush can tell an offbeat story the way you’ve never heard it before, but wanted to. Her ironised yet romantic fatalism—reminiscent of a post-sisterhood Millay—is a model of wit and restrained emotion."
John Stammers, foreword, The Like Of It
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