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Peter Standish Evans

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in Malvern - Colwell, The United Kingdom

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Contemporary, Fiction, Poetry

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Ivan Turgenev; Camille Paglia; Graham Greene; Roberto Bolano; Allen Gi ...more

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Peter Standish Evans was born in England. Author and poet, he started writing with poets in a school termed 'Neo Metallic Realism'. Their influences had crossed borders; and music and lyrics combined to inspire young writers;

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GOODREADS GIVEAWAY STARTS TODAY>> OMINOUS BORDERS COFFEE. THE PARIS THRILLER. An obsessive and beautiful classical violinist and a malevolent killer spend summer in Paris. The cafés and bistros hum with robust and colourful energy. Girls murdered after midnight on bridges over the River Seine have cryptic messages left with their bodies. Inspector Vasseur sits at his favourite table on a battered Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 22, 2015 09:25 • Tags: bistros, bodies, café, coffee, obsessive, paris, targets, wine

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“i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.”
― Peter Standish Evans, Red Winds Howl

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“...the borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 13: by Peter

Jun 30, 2014 07:25AM

Fallen Star Poet wrote: "Thank you for the request to be friends, Peter. We seem to have a much in common. It is lovely to 'meet' you. I am going to have to procure some of your work now and read it. I am looking forward t..."

Hi, hope all progressing well on your poetic venture.. been writing hard here, keeping the head down. Can't wait to see you published..

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message 12: by Cathleen

Aug 19, 2013 10:10AM

Peter wrote: "Cathleen wrote: "Thank you for the friend request, Peter. I'm looking forward to discussing books with you and finding out more about your books."

Cathleen.. I'm reading three books currently, th..."

The Sorrentino novel sounds really interesting. I just finished John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure, and I thought it was one of the best books I've read this year, in the past several years. His writing awed me :)

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message 11: by Peter

Jul 24, 2013 08:41AM

Cathleen wrote: "Thank you for the friend request, Peter. I'm looking forward to discussing books with you and finding out more about your books."

Cathleen.. I'm reading three books currently, the Sorrentino novel, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things was a friend suggestion, an interesting book for which I'm most grateful.. and the Bolano poetry collection (and short poetic prose pieces) The Unknown University, will not leave my side, such a magnificent writer.. we read on

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message 10: by Peter

Jul 24, 2013 08:33AM

Katy wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Look forward to talking about books!"

Katy, I'm finding that Goodreads is introducing me to so many grand writers through friends.. my to-read list could grow exponentially, sadly time doesn't grow that same way. I'll try and cherry pick the reads.. loved The Orphan Master's Son.. that was special.. Cheers

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message 9: by Katy

Jul 23, 2013 10:35AM

Thanks for the friend request. Look forward to talking about books!

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message 8: by Cathleen

Jul 23, 2013 04:54AM

Thank you for the friend request, Peter. I'm looking forward to discussing books with you and finding out more about your books.

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message 7: by Kris

Jul 05, 2013 02:18PM

Thank you so much for the friend request! It's a pleasure to accept it. :)

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message 6: by Peter

Jul 04, 2013 07:26AM

"s.penkevich wrote: "Thank you for the friend request! Looking forward to discussing books with you"

Peter wrote: Wandered through your book list, interesting reads ahead, will start with Cloud Atlas. Keeping m..."

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message 5: by Peter

Jul 04, 2013 07:23AM

"Sabne wrote: "Thanks for friending me!"

Peter wrote: I enjoy the dynamism of your interjections and interactions, my pleasure."

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message 4: by Peter

Jul 04, 2013 07:13AM

Sabne wrote: "Thanks for friending me!"

I enjoy the dynamism of your interjections and interactions, my pleasure.

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message 3: by Peter

Jul 04, 2013 07:08AM

s.penkevich wrote: "Thank you for the friend request! Looking forward to discussing books with you"

Wandered through your book list, interesting reads ahead, will start with Cloud Atlas. Keeping my to-read list short.. many thanks. Loved, The Orphan Master's Son, book strips open a whole new world.

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message 2: by Sabne

Jul 02, 2013 11:53AM