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) .Australian Verse: An Illustrated Treasury, edited by Beatrice Davis, State Library of New South Wales Press, 1996
Career After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne.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