Evan Jones (Australian poet)
# Evan Jones (Australian poet)

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) .

## Career

After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne.

## 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
