“ WILD GOOSE” – A NEW NOVEL BY VERY ESTABLISHED  WRITER AND POET

– SALLY EVANS

Sally is a poet working in long and formal styles. She was editor of Poetry Scotland broadsheet 1997-2018, and hosted the popular Callander Poetry Weekends that ran for nearly 20 years. She has published poetry widely in magazines and books, translated Gaelic poetry, and been a poetry editor of the Scots Language Centre’s website. At Diehard Press, she has edited and published books by many other poets.

Sally has read and performed poetry at StAnza, in all the Scottish cities and throughout England, especially the North. She has led workshops on poetry writing, forms, presentation and reading to an audience, and themes. Over the years Sally has judged competitions, won slams, edited online anthologies, and helped writing groups produce booklets.

Sally has now retired from some of her activities and is studying in Lancaster, but is still available for readings, talks and discussions across the poetry spectrum.

The Wild Goose is Sally’s first published novel by Post box Press. Inside the flyleaf at the front of the novel you can discover all the sources for Sally’s poems,  The novel is printed on Forest Stewardship Council Certified Paper.  A debateable quote is at the beginning of the novel. ”The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist…In our society the person is much more important than anything he might create.” (David Mamet, External Magic, in A Whores Profession, Faber 1994, p 138-9.) There’s also a quote by writer Virginia Woolf.

In the 15 stunning chapters of Sally’s novel we discover the relationships and lifestyles of those who write poetry and who network in poetry circles – mainly in the North of England.

Fictional poet cousins Eric Grysewood and Maeve Cartier take the centre roles in this saga featuring poets and poetry. Expect to find detailed descriptions of mingling and sojourns with the poetically driven stars of the story. The goose and geese play a feature role in the subject of poems by one of the star characters. Poetic quotes are submitted to the reader.

Venues for the story include Basil Bunting’s Brigg flatts, StAnza International Poetry Festival, Sandy Bell in Edinburgh, Portree on Skye or Durham’s Palace Green. A boy band causes problems, a poem goes astray, someone holds onto a cliff and two poets find their destinies.

Sally Evans – a well known poet and bookseller, was Editor of Poetry Scotland between 1997 – 2018 and hosted poetry conventions at Callender. Wild Goose is her first published novel,

ENJOY

Penny Nair Price