Full-On Basso Profundo

Ken Evans featured in Broken Sleep’s Masculinity anthology and won the 2018 Kent and Sussex Poetry Competition. He has been published widely in magazines including Magma, Poetry Scotland, The Alchemy Spoon, Frogmore Papers. He began to write poetry ten years ago after donating a kidney to his sister who has lupus.

Ken Evans has divided this ambitious and searching collection into three overlapping sections. The Oikosphere – from oikos – family, household (Greek); The Anersphere – from aner – male (Greek); and Americanicity, a pleasing word I’d not heard before, noted as ‘an uncommon noun’ …A Full-On Basso Profundo is a deeply-felt collection for right now. Ken Evans challenges, with craft and musicality, the state we’re in. A necessary book.