Christine Evans (poet)
British poet
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Christine Evans (born 1943) is a British poet who was born in West Riding, Yorkshire, and lives in North Wales.
Evans lives half the year on Bardsey Island, spending winters at Uwchmynydd. In 1967 she moved to Pwllheli, where her father and grandmother were brought up, to work as a teacher, and married into a Bardsey Island farming family. Whilst on maternity leave in 1976, she started writing poems, and her first book was published seven years later.
Cometary Phases was Welsh Book of the Year 1989 and she was the winner of the inaugural Roland Mathias Prize in 2005.