Katy Evans-Bush: “A Conversation About Dreams …” Tour
Me and the Dead
In one of the best debut collections for ages, Katy Evans-Bush rises to the challenge of finding words for our times, meeting them in the nurseries of children or the battlefields of Iraq. Her work is various, educated and promiscuously open to experience: a Bishoppy moose makes an unepiscopal escape into TV’s Northern Exposure as its name morphs through Muldoonian games; Catullus is translated into rougharse while the title-poem takes the pulse of modern death. She makes good use of her joint passport into British and American poetry, which now often seem to share a whole language of faux amis, in a book which is stylish and funny, cultured and humane. This is contemporary poetry for grown-ups.
On Katy’s book tour, A Conversation About Dreams discover:
- In Me and the Dead Katy Evans-Bush writes about life and art, death and love, from both sides of the Atlantic.
- “Like a post-sisterhood Millay” she casts a cool eye on the vagaries of modern life – its laissez-faire sexual politics, its pretensions and its little ironic betrayals – and parses out with wry humour the ways in which we occupy our emotional surroundings.
- Katy Evans-Bush was born in New York City and moved to London at the age of nineteen. She lives in Stoke Newington with her three children, and writes the literary blog Baroque in Hackney.
- This is her first full collection.
| Stops | Tour Date | Blog |
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| 1 | 8 December 2008 | North Meadow Media |
| 2 | 12 December 2008 | Private Secret Diary |
| 3 | 15 December 2008 | The Richard Madeley Appreciation Society |
| 4 | 19 December 2008 | Eyewear |
| 5 | 22 December 2008 | Normblog |
| 6 | 26 December 2008 | Madame Arcati |
| 7 | 29 December 2008 | Poetry Hut |
| 8 | 16 January 2009 | E-Verse Radio |
| 9 | 5 January 2009 | The Bibliophilic Blogger |
| 10 | 9 January 2009 | The Thoughtful Dresser |
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Well, what an interesting group of hosts have gathered to greet – and interrogate – you. I look forward to seeing the results!
Great tour name, by the way.
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
[...] Todd will be featuring Katy Evans-Bish on her virtual book tour A Conversation About Dreams … [...]
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
[...] nearly here! The cyclone is about to touch [...]
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Charles, I can’t tell you how excited I am to have such a great bunch of bloggers to host (I mean interrogate) me. They’re an incredibly diverse group but each of them is committed to the idea of culture and to creativity. Some of them are also extremely funny.
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
[...] nearly here! The cyclone is about to touch [...]
December 8th, 2008 at 12:24 am
[...] limited field in the area of time-travelling: you can read the first instalment of my virtual Cyclone tour as if it were already tomorrow! Here in London! [...]
December 15th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
[...] of people – and now I’ve almost had my chance, thanks to my publisher Salt Publishing’s Cyclone virtual book [...]
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
[...] Jump to Comments Yes: it’s a Cyclone. The Me and the Dead Salt Publishing virtual book tour continues today over at Norm’s place, in the midst of holiday preparations – and indeed the [...]
December 26th, 2008 at 10:21 am
[...] Cyclone book tour of the blogosphere continues – though I can hardly believe it! -on Friday at Jilly Dybka’s [...]
December 30th, 2008 at 4:00 am
[...] poetry as if it’s something people want. Which it is, in fact. I firmly believe that. These Cyclone book tours are one example of how Salt is using innovative means to get books into the hands of [...]
December 30th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
[...] purposes of the present Cyclone tour I have gone to Jilly’s with my more serious poetry hat on. She’s interested in what [...]
January 5th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
[...] wintry Me and the Dead blog tour goes on a little holiday tomorrow. We are departing from the advertised itinerary to bring [...]
January 15th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
[...] month but you can read about Ernest Hilbert here and Red Hen Press here. And you can join me on my Cyclone book tour at E-Verse Radio [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 9:38 am
[...] is just to say that my penultimate, or maybe the pen-penultimate, stop on my whistle-stop virtual Cyclone rattle around the blogosphere will be live this morning – Philly time – and will be at no less than the [...]
January 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
[...] More about Me and the Dead here. Follow Katy’s Cyclone book tour, A Conversation About Dreams, here. [...]