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

Early life

Born in

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, 20 November 1931, Jones attended

Melbourne High School Melbourne High School is a government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school for boys, located in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1905, the school caters for boys from Year 9 t ...

, and studied at the

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, and

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(1958–1960) .

Career

After 1960, he taught English at the

.''Australian Poets and Their Works'', William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996

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 1931 births 2022 deaths Australian literary critics Australian poets University of Melbourne alumni Poets from Melbourne {{Australia-poet-stub