Evan Jones (Australian poet)

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
  1. "Evan Lloyd Jones". The Age. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  2. Australian Verse: An Illustrated Treasury, edited by Beatrice Davis, State Library of New South Wales Press, 1996
  3. Australian Poets and Their Works, William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
  • 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

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