Evan Jones (Australian poet)

Evan Jones
Born	Evan Llyod Jones (1931-11-20)20 November 1931 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	3 August 2022(2022-08-03) (aged 89)
Occupation	Poet academic
Alma mater	Melbourne High School University of Melbourne Stanford University

Evan Lloyd Jones (20 November 1931 – 3 August 2022) 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) .

Career

After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne.

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

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