Evalyn Lee

@evalynlee.bsky.social

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Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood

Bright blue graffiti words on a white wall that read in loopy handwriting: “when you read this .. Smile’ —QM
A poem burned into in three planks attached to a street lamp in Battersea reads: “A picture says a 1000 words/but metaphors are real/They Feel Joy & hurt & read/ This poem by St Mary’s Church//work for equality/don’t ignore poverty/wear their shoes/and pay your dues//Cos beyond bone & flesh/ We are just metaphor/ So who can you/ Make life better for?”
An illustration from Arnold Lobel’s Frog & Toad series where Frog & Toad a are walking together in the windy grass with a ball of string in Toad’s hand and Frog carrying a kite.
A white card with the words: ‘Hope above all is a faith in our capacity to act together to make change. To do this we need to be bold.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Journal page with Red, White and Blue around the quotation: “And Love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and, furthermore, to win.’ —James Baldwin
A dark suit with a waving hand with an old fashioned TV for a head on a bright multi-coloured background with a small sign saying anti-climb paint
A young man walks in front of mural, a world made of brilliantly coloured flowers, or a flower face, just past another mural of a young child’s face bowed in prayer and contemplation, as a pigeon flies towards him, leaving its shadow on the flower world wall right as the boy’s two legs, beneath the photo frozen pigeon wings, turn into the bird’s wing shadows.
MAY 24, 2020 by Evalyn Lee for Joseph Brodsky catkins are dying in a dry and white light a flux of birdsong flexes blossoms bends the wind into a pandemonium of parakeets too drunk to eat even one more translucent petal petals like skin your skin the skin I have repented especially the flexible blooms of our hands behind my head as you say you are dying trace the thick blue scar up behind your knee until it crosses your heart you cried after the heart surgery the doctor held the blossom cascade of your fingers bent but not broken you judged me shallow I am still shallow maybe less slippery certainly fatter but quick before the doves arrive to feast on the final blooms under this bright May sky clouds like the white pillows I move out of the way let me touch paper petal your skin thank you and say sorry for the nitty-gritty you are dying I believe you I want kids in the garden blossoms flex in birdsong releasing a confusion of pollen
a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader An Vu on April 24 2026
a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader Anne Thomas on April 24 2026
Line drawing of Ken Cohen reading at @londonistoryprize.bsky.social
Line drawing of Derville Murphy reading from her winning short story ‘Artemis’ at LISP anthology launch April 23 2026
Line drawing of Ozge Goztuk, Director of the London Independent Story Prize
head and hands is two apostles, Saints John and Peter ca 1519-20 by Raphael
A woman wearing heart dark glasses holds a sign that reads: Healthcare not Warfare
A young man sits in north London under a tan sheet or light blanket in a green hoodie with a paper cup with a sign that reads ‘please help me God bless you’ beside a wall covered in graffiti next to the image of a dark head with two blank eyes and arm upstretched with its left hand almost claw-like, both are deep in water, either drowning or waving
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An image of a quote by the poet Jenny Mitchell surrounded by lit small electric lights reads: “Poets are still routinely dismissed as having their heads in the clouds, but I think it takes real power to withstand everyday stresses and big life challenges AND still sit down and still write from the heart.”
May your #NewYear be as mysterious, strange, vivid and poignant & as moving as this fragment of a torn up note, written by an unknown writer to an unknown recipient that I found, wet, and glowing, in my garden. The text in blue running ink letters reads “it because there is …-nt to me … one and think …put on this page … than you … for this opportunity…I am… I also thanks … and when nobody …truly sorry for …”
Embroidered line of coloured Christmas Lights with the words Merry & Bright
In pink chalk, on a painted green wall, the word ‘ICE,’ drawn with a circle and diagonal cross-line through it, and below it, the word ‘No’ with an exclamation point.
A face in profile with the words: My work is being published coming December 2025 #RitesandTrials #ComingOfAgePoetry @thebrokenspine
A mosaic image from Lisbon, of a pair of male hands & arms which are tattooed/merging with veins, rivulets of delft blue into the white water of a river on which a sailboat, with a single sailor, floats calmly in the palm of the hands.
A picture of Vanguard Edition magazine on a shelf with sea shells and dawn light
An embroidery sewn with black letters on white fabric that reads: ‘For fuck’s sake be kind to yourself.’