Jones, Colin Stewart, unknown, artist, writer
Colin Stewart Jones is an artist and a writer. He paints with recycled materials and makes sculptural assemblage pieces with discarded objects. In his writing, he produces short image-based poetry, utilising the haiku style.
Jones, Eileen, unknown, poet, playwright
Eileen Jones lives in Wylam, Northumberland and is a poet and playwright.
Jones, Ken, unknown, editor, poet
Ken Jones was the co-editor of the annual volume Contemporary Haibun. He contributes regularly to UK haiku magazines, and is represented in British and American anthologies. He has been awarded the Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haiku, and in 2002 he acted as UK judge for the first Nobuyuki Yuasa International English Haibun Contest.
Jones, William Arthur, 1818-1873, Unitarian minister, antiquary
Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne, 1833-1898, 1st Baronet, painter
Joseph, Jenny, 1932-2018, poet
Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham in 1932. She was first published by John Lehmann in the 1950s. Her first book of poems, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), won her an Eric Gregory Award, and she won a Cholmondeley Award for her second collection, Rose in the Afternoon (1974). Two further collections followed from Secker & Warburg, The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983). Her Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1992, drawing on these four books. She is best-known for her poem 'Warning', a dramatic monologue in which a young woman talks of her fantasies of old age, voted Britain's favourite modern poem in a BBC poll in 2006. First published in Rose in the Afternoon, 'Warning' is included in her Bloodaxe Selected Poems: to view of her reading the poem, click on that page.
Her other books include: Persephone (Bloodaxe Books, 1986), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Beached Boats (Enitharmon Press, 1991), a collaboration with photographer Robert Mitchell; Ghosts and other company (Bloodaxe Books, 1995); a book of prose, Extended Similes (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), All the Things I See (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2000); a gardening memoir, Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells (Souvenir Press, 2002); a collection of new and later selected poems, Extreme of things (Bloodaxe Books, 2006); and Nothing Like Love (Enitharmon Press, 2010), a selection of her love poems.
She lives in Gloucestershire.