Christine Evans (poet)

For other uses, see Christine Evans.

Christine Evans (born 1943)^[1] is an English poet who was born in West Riding, Yorkshire.^[2]

Evans lives half the year on Bardsey Island, spending winters at Uwchmynydd. In 1967 she moved to Pwllheli, where her father and grandmother were brought up,^[2] to work as a teacher, and married into a Bardsey Island farming family. Whilst on maternity leave in 1976, she started writing poems, and her first book was published seven years later.

Cometary Phrases was Welsh Book of the Year 1989 and she was the winner of the inaugural Roland Mathias Prize in 2005.^[3]

Bibliography

• Looking Inland (Seren, 1983)
• Falling Back (Seren, 1986)
• Cometary Phases (Seren, 1989)
• Island of Dark Horses (Seren, 1995)
• Selected Poems (Seren, 2004)
• Growth Rings (Seren, 2006)
• Burning the Candle (Gomer, 2006)
• Bardsey (Gomer, 2008)

References

1. ^ "List Of Writers: EVANS, CHRISTINE". Academi. http://www.academi.org/list-of-writers/i/130004/. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Island poet". BBC. 7 November 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/bardsey/pages/christine_evans.shtml. 
3. ^ Gwasg Gomer : Author Biographies : Christine Evans Retrieved 2009-08-16

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