Emperors

Jones Evan

"Later Emperors", the second Carcanet collection from Canadian poet and critic Evan Jones, is a catalogue of ambition and failure: historical figures – emperors, historians, moralists – are brought back to life and consider the world in which we live.

About the Author

Evan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, "Nothing Fell Today But Rain" (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology "Modern Canadian Poets" (Carcanet, 2010).

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