Welcome to the website of Jill Jones
This is my main website. It contains information about my books, sample poems from the books as well as new works, articles, interviews, and other writings.
It also provides links to my work on other sites and my other websites.
Photo: Annette Willis 2007
A little bit about my work
My poems reflect places which are mainly urban and strewn with
emblems and texts, accidental or deliberate.
I'm interested in relationships between states and locales, shifting
borders, the openings in closures, pleasures of exploration, the great
themes, like the weather. Walking is important, slow mobility across
terrain, the temporal process.
I’m working somewhere between the lyric and something more
broader, more discursive, so I move from either investigations of
interiority or sensuality merged with the figurative which may also
speak to larger structures. The poems have become a broken song
– fragmented, flagrant, floating - perhaps an abstract or
ruined lyric, where ‘I’ has shifted from the centre.
The way I work has evolved from a continuing interest in
texture,
pattern and transience, of jumping in the midst of the flow, experience
in language underway, asking questions about how the pieces
don’t
fit as shards alter meanings.
While not getting hung up on ‘the image’ as such,
I’ve always worked visually. I’m not interested in
telling
images what to do but rather a process of seeing.
The soundings of a poem are also important to me, as is the way the
line works. I prefer more linguistic play in the line emphasising both
connectedness and parataxis, the flexing of thought/meditation and
critique, including self-critique.
You can buy copies of my books online
from the following publishers:
Salt Publishing
Broken/Open|
Screen
Jets Heaven
Picaro
Press
Where the
Sea Burns