Evan Jones (Australian poet)

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Evan Lloyd Jones ( 20 November 1931 – 3 August 2022)^[1] was an Australian poet and academic.

Early life

Born in Melbourne, 20 November 1931, Jones attended Melbourne High School, and studied at the University of Melbourne, and Stanford University (1958–1960) .^[2]

Career

After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne.^[3]

Works

• Inside the Whale: poems, Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960
• Understandings: poems, Cambridge University Press, 1967
• Kenneth MacKenzie, by Evan Jones, 'Australian writers and their work' series, Oxford University Press, 1969
• The Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie, edited by Evan Jones and Geoffrey Little, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1972
• Recognitions, Australian National University Press, 1978
• Left at the Post, University of Queensland Press, 1984
• The politic body and other poems, Picaro Press, 2009
• Alone At Last!, Picaro Press, 2009
• Heavens Above, Picaro Press, 2011
• Selected Poems, Grand Parade Poets, 2014

References

External links

• Improlific poet, review by Geoff Page, Australian Book Review, January–February 2015, no. 368
• Selected Poems review: The inquiring works of Evan Jones, review by Gig Ryan, The Age, 15 January 2015
• Evan Jones: Selected Poems, review by Martin Duwell, Australian Poetry Review, 1 February 2015
• Review Short: Evan Jones’s Selected Poems, review by Alyson Miller, Cordite, 5 May 2015
• Obituary, by Alex Skovron, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2022

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/literary-giant-wrote-with-relaxing-ease-20220923-p5bkhi.html

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