Brian Jones (poet)



Brian Jones (10 December 1938- 25 June 2009) was a British poet.

Jones' first major collection, Poems (consisting of his first book, The Madman in the Reading Room and thirty-seven other poems), was published in 1966, and proved to be successful. Those poems dealt with both the joy and the unease that may be present beneath the surface of what seems to be placid middle-class domesticity. This was very much in a style popular in the 1950s and 1960s, and Jones has been described as "certainly one of the very best practitioners of this overworked vein". two of Brian Jones best-known children's poems are About Friends and How to catch tiddlers.

Publications

 * 1966: Poems (London: Alan Ross) His first book, The Madman in the Reading Room, with thirty-seven other poems.
 * 1968: A Family Album (London: Alan Ross) A collection of four poem-sequences.
 * (The first two collections were reissued as one volume by Alan Ross in 1972.)
 * 1969: Interior (London: Alan Ross) A collection of twenty-five poems.
 * 1970: The Mantis Hand and Other Poems (Gillingham: ARC) A collection of nine poems.
 * 1978: The Island Normal (Manchester: Carcanet New Press) A collection of sixty-one poems.
 * 1985: Children of Separation (Manchester: Carcanet Press) A collection ??? poems.
 * 1990: Freeborn John (Manchester: Carcanet Press) A collection of ??? poems.