Evan Jones (poet)

Evan Jones (poet)

Evan Jones (born 1931) is an Australian poet and professor.

Biography

Born in Melbourne, November 10, 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] After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne. ["Australian Poets and Their Works", William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996]

Works

*"Understandings: poems", Cambridge University Press, 1967
*"Inside the Whale: poems", Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960
*"Recognitions", Australian National University Press, 1978
*"Left at the Post", University of Queensland Press, 1984

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