Accord by John Idris Jones

New and selected from one of Wales most independent poets and publishers

An important presence in Welsh publishing and poetry, John Idris Jones’ new and selected, Accord, spans his writing from the 1960s to the present.

Place is important on this globe
of furrows with troughs of memory
following our plough. Everywhere
there are fragments.
A mound of earth will make a stone, or Caesar.

That’s John Idris Jones – ploughing his lonely furrow, conveying subtle truths in simple language. Elsewhere he has written, ‘The sky is quiet with distant birds.’ Beat that.

Herbert Williams

…his eye always sharply focussed on some telling detail, his mind keenly inventing images which are charged with the poem’s essential meaning. Indeed, I marvel at some of Idris’s images — …phrases of remarkable precision that create the impression that one is there looking. …this is pure poetry, a pleasure to read and re-read.

Zulfikar Ghose

John Idris Jones

Born in 1938 in Llanrhaeadr–ym–Mochnant, Denbighshire. John Idris Jones attended Brynhyfryd School, Ruthin, 1950-57; Keele University 57-61; Cornell University, USA, 64-65. His play entitled Football Match (Cameo Club Alley Press, 1979) was commissioned by WAC/BBC and broadcast by Radio Wales in 1979.

John is Director of the small publishing company John Jones Publishing Ltd; its website can be viewed at www.johnjonespublishingltd.com. He is an active contributor to Roundyhouse magazine as poet and book reviewer.