Evan Jones (poet)

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

Early life

Born in Melbourne, 10 November 1931, Jones attended Melbourne High School, and studied at the University of Melbourne, and Stanford University (1958–1960) .^[1]

Career

After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne.^[2]

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

Notes

1. Australian Verse: An Illustrated Treasury, edited by Beatrice Davis, State Library of New South Wales Press, 1996
2. Australian Poets and Their Works, William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996