Edwin Stuart Gomer Evans (20 October 1934 – 12 December 1994)[1] was a Swansea-born Welsh novelist and poet, raised in Ystalyfera in Glamorgan.
Prior to concentrating on novel writing, Evans had won the Newdigate Prize in 1955 for his poem "Elegy for a Dead Clown".
[5] Philip Howard, writing in The Times, described Evans as "my candidate for the Juvenal, I dare not say the Martial, of our generation.
"[6] Peter Lewis, in The Times Literary Supplement, described Evans' Windmill Hill Sequence as "probably the most ambitious fictional work in progress by a British writer".
[7] Until the late 2000s much of his work was out of print, but two of his poems were included in the anthology Poetry 1900–2000,[2] published by the Library of Wales.