{"id":2034,"date":"2015-08-04T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/devolvedvoices\/?page_id=2034"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:40:58","slug":"interview-kristian-evans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/media\/interview-kristian-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Kristian Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2307\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/files\/2015\/08\/IMAG1001_1-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" \/>Kristian Evans is a poet, artist and environmental activist, originally from Bridgend. He writes the popular Kenfig Journal for Sustainable Wales, and contributes to the organisation and development of their arts venue \u2018The Green Room&#8217;, based in Porthcawl. He also regularly collaborates with performance artists; recent works have included <em>The Mirror\u2019s Grain<\/em> (2011), and <em>A Conference of Bird<\/em>s (2015). His first collection of poems, <em>Unleaving<\/em>, is published by HappenStance Press. He currently lives among the sand dunes at Kenfig on the south Wales coast with his wife, two sons and a border collie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliography<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<em>Unleaving<\/em> (HappenStance, forthcoming, 2015) ISBN TBC<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJUp9FvSDmc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-9OvcY7TbU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The views and opinions of interviewees are their own, and are not necessarily those of Devolved Voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian Evans is a poet, artist and environmental activist, originally from Bridgend. He writes the popular Kenfig Journal for Sustainable Wales, and contributes to the organisation and development of their arts venue \u2018The Green Room&#8217;, based in Porthcawl. He also regularly collaborates with performance artists; recent works have included The Mirror\u2019s Grain (2011), and A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/media\/interview-kristian-evans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Kristian Evans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13396,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2034","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9R2R9-wO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2034\/revisions\/2308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}