Evan Jones brings an exciting new voice to Canadian poetry His lyrical style shapes a contemporary mood with mythic echoes, marrying the mysterious with the mundane and revealing the stark oppositions and sharp distances in our everyday lives

Nothing Fell Today But Rain includes a variety of forms which draw on geography and a sense of place as its poetic resource Jones approaches love and longing, and joy and regret with a cool optimism warmed by erotic undercurrents His sharp prose evokes rivers and highways, bedrooms and telephones, city streets and lake mosquitoes Yet wherever he takes us, we always return - to the unexpected

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Awards for Poetry, 2003

Evan Jones edited New Canadian Poetry, Introductions: Poets Present Poets and most recently, Opening the Island, Anne Compton's debut collection of poetry His work has appeared in Descant, the Malahat Review, and Queen Street Quarterly Nothing Fell Today But Rain is Jones's debut collection of poetry

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