Bill Evans

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You’ve landed on the website of the ‘other’ Bill Evans. Though he loves his namesake’s jazz piano compositions, he is into writing, architecture and photography. In a next life he’d like to play the piano.

Photos and images on this website are copyrighted by William E. Evans unless otherwise credited.

Books in Print

Love in Winter

“Love in Winter reaches for art to clothe a father’s naked grief, grasping onto whatever impulse is offered, no matter how raw or disparate it seems, no matter how far afield it takes him.

“Love in Winter collects poems written in the long season of grief. As its speaker navigates the first winter after his son’s suicide, winter proves to be more than just a few months’ passage: it becomes a season of the soul.”

LETITIA MONTGOMERY-RODGERS Foreword Reviews May 20, 2019

Dogs and Disturbance

“Heartfelt verses written for a beloved pet have no doubt graced the journal pages of many a would-be poet. With Dogs and Disturbance, William Edmund Evans elevates this type of poem to a new level, offering pieces that share his personal experiences with his dogs and family in language that resonates with soulfulness.

The poems are not so much about dogs as they are about the way our animal companions teach us about living and dying.”

Margaret Fedder, Foreword Review

Dogs and Disturbance was awarded a 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention

Southern Son

“Most interesting are italicized passages that appear like codas on the end of poems. These seem to come in the speaker’s voice, and they mix formal syntax with emotional vulnerability. A longer passage in this vein closes ‘Life by Life:’

“We are this forest cut to fringe a heart once growing wild my thriving oak is gone.

Cold space and time to see! beyond this galaxy a mercy dwelling there.

Be quiet now the wind will play, be restful child be still I have chimes to sing you home.”

“Narrative, lyric, and elegiac, Southern Son spirals through the speaker’s trauma in a poetic cycle that’s unrelenting in its attempt to capture a life that’s already gone before the words hit the page.”

Letitia Montgomery-Rogers, Foreword Reviews, June 12, 2017

Not to Touch

“Intense and interesting, this poetry collection features a rawness of emotion deeply felt and adeptly conveyed.

“William Edmund Evans’s latest collection of poetry, Not to Touch, is an intense and interesting follow-up to the intimate Dogs and Disturbance, which was a 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention in the pets category.

“It is difficult to not be simply struck by many of Evans’s well-crafted lines, particularly moments like “the trees / a pale green gauze / tinged a winter starkness” that tease out the beauty of the outer world that can be so difficult to capture with language. Standout pieces like “Birth, What Was to Follow,” “The Dead Cry from their Place,” and the lovely “Dreams of Living on a Point” are full of imagery both tender and stark; all three point toward a rawness of emotion deeply felt and adeptly conveyed.”

Margaret Fedder, Foreword Review

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