The Essential D. G. Jones - Jones, D G
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"This Essential presents the most important lyrics from all stages of D.G Jones's career. Editor Jim Johnstone has prepared a critical introduction which provides context for individual poems and explains the progression of Jones's poetic practice."--

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"This Essential presents the most important lyrics from all stages of D.G Jones's career. Editor Jim Johnstone has prepared a critical introduction which provides context for individual poems and explains the progression of Jones's poetic practice."--
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Douglas Gordon Jones was a Canadian writer, translator and critic. Born in 1929 in Bancroft, ON, he studied English Literature in university at McGill and Queen's. He continued his career in academia, teaching at Bishop's University before settling into a post at the Universit? de Sherbrooke. While there, he co-founded a bilingual literary journal ellipse: Writers in Translation (1969-2012), the only magazine of its kind in Canada. Jones was the author of ten books of poetry, and won the A. J. M. Smith Award for Poetry (1977), the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry (1989, 1995) and the Governor General's Award, once in 1977 for his collection of poems, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth, and again in 1993 for his translation of Normand de Bellefeuille's Categorics: 1, 2 & 3. In 2007, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. Jones passed away in March 2016 in North Hatley, Quebec.