Brian jones poet biography

  • Brian Jones (10 December 1938 – 25 June 2009) was a British poet.
  • Brian Jones was a British poet.
  • The poet Brian Jones first came to prominence in the late 1960s when Poems (1966) and A Family Album (1968) were published by Alan Ross.

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    Brian Jones (poet)

    British poet

    For other people named Brian Jones, see Brian Jones (disambiguation).

    Brian Jones (10 December 1938 – 25 June 2009) was a Britishpoet. He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

    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 was described by Edward Lucie-Smith in a 1970 anthology of post-war British poetry as "certainly one of the very best practitioners of this overworked vein".[1] Subsequent critical assessments of his work have included the following:

    "Jones believes that poetry need not surrender to fiction all the stories that need t

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    Brian Jones

    British musician, founder of the Rolling Stones (1942–1969)

    For other people named Brian Jones, see Brian Jones (disambiguation).

    Musical artist

    Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and founder of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to sing backing vocals and played a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts.

    After he founded the Rolling Stones as a British blues outfit in 1962 and gave the grupp its name, Jones's fellow grupp members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger began to take over the band's musical direction, especially after they became a successful songwriting team.

    When Jones developed alcohol and drug problems, his performance in the studio became increasingly unreliable, leading to a diminished role within the grupp he had founded. In June 1969, the Rolling Stones dismissed Jones; guitarist Mick Taylor took his place in the group. Less than a month later

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    Jones, Brian

    Nationality: British. Born: London in 1938. Family: Married; two children. Career: English teacher at British grammar and secondary schools. Awards: Cholmondeley award, 1967; Eric Gregory award, 1968. Address: c/o Carcanet Press, 4th Floor, Conavon Court, 12–16 Blackfriars Street, Manchester M3 5BQ, England.

    Publications

    Poetry

    Poems. London, Alan Ross, 1966.

    A Family Album. London, Alan Ross, 1968.

    Interior. London, Alan Ross, 1969.

    The Mantis Hand and Other Poems. Gillingham, Kent, Arc, 1970.

    For Mad Mary. London, London Magazine Editions, 1974.

    The Spitfire on the Northern Line (for children). London, Chatto and Windus, 1975.

    The Island Normal. Manchester. Carcanet. 1980.

    The Children of Separation. Manchester, Carcanet, 1985.

    Freeborn John. Manchester, Carcanet, 1990.

    Play

    Radio Play: The Lady with a Little Dog, from a story by Chekhov, 1962.

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    Brian Jones's poetry explores a world of remembered landscapes and fa

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