‘Formally inventive, rich in aslant borrowings, unafraid of visual and textual experiment, it is an exhilarating debut.’ The Guardian

Performing from his debut collection with an assembly of field recordings, voices, cassette tapes and original music, Rowan Evans will take us from the flooded and wooded terrains of Somerset and East Anglia to the burnt hills of Andalusía, in a sustained encounter with other languages, other texts and other species.

The poems at the centre of A Method, A Path explore the turbulent transmission of historical and mythic voices that ‘reach across’ time and place, and a fierce rejection of the nationalist ideologies that have sought to ‘island’ them. Here, translation is a lived and open-ended negotiation, invested in the potential for magic utterance and ritual action in spite of language’s violence as ‘words / tear their wing bones / and grow new heads / in the wound.’

Rowan will be joined by writer and artist Jack Young for an experimental discussion about the collection’s sources and influences, asking how we might think about – or perform – a book’s many ‘texts, pretexts, limbs, voices, heads, manuscripts, contested grounds, false lineages.’

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