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