Name Christine Evans | Role Poet | |
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Books Burning the Candle, Cometary phases, Falling Back, The Right to Reparatio, Growth Rings | ||
Bardsey island of dark horses poetry by christine evans
Christine Evans (born 1943) is a British poet who was born in West Riding, Yorkshire, and lives in North Wales.
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Location and job
In 1967 Evans moved to Pwllheli, where her father and grandmother were brought up, to work as a teacher, and married into a Bardsey Island farming family. She currently lives half the year on Bardsey Island, spending winters at Uwchmynydd.
Writings
Whilst on maternity leave in 1976, she started writing poems, and her first book was published seven years later. Cometary Phases was Welsh Book of the Year 1989 and was the winner of the inaugural Roland Mathias Prize in 2005.
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