For the modernist poet and painter David Jones, the artist’s life always seemed a natural fit. Born in Kent in 1895, he was raised to value beautiful words and images: his father was a printer’s overseer, and his family, Jones wrote, “took the printed page and its illustration for granted.” Jones himself started drawing at the age of five and enrolled in art school at f (...)
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Words in Action
The Sacramental Poetry of David Jones
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A lavish 2010 showcase of David Jones, both his poetry and his painting, can be found at FlashPoint (http://www.flashpointmag.com/index13.htm) -- an on-line journal of which I am one of the editors. The actual editor of the Jones issue is Bradford Haas. Contributors include Kathleen Henderson Staudt, William Blisset, Tom Goldpaugh, Rev Dr Calum Macfarlane, Derek Shiel, Anne Price-Owen, Colin Wilcockson, Thomas Dilworth, and David Annwn. It's a feast for the eyes and ears!