The collection addresses shared, topical challenges like identity, gender roles, belonging and family, at a time of shifting, heightened uncertainty. Themes which affect all of us like toxic masculinity, family disfunction, war, and climate, in fiercely imaginative, jagged, yet compassionate, sometimes absurdist, surreal fashion.

Evans has always been the keenest observer of the private self, the historical person, and all the versions in between. He writes the family with an unrivalled, gimlet-eyed affection; a wicked sense of humour and a deeper sense of compassion. In his new collection time seems to pass in two directions, through vivid memory and an inexplicable future, quantumly entangled. What we have, what we have always had, is each other, and all the complications that entails. His speakers have an encyclopaedic curiosity and wit, but the more we understand the more a definitive interpretation seems to recede like a false horizon. We’re supremely lucky to have a poet like him.