Chris Jones
Chris Jones has lived in Sheffield since 1990. He was awarded an Eric Gregory
Award for his poetry in 1996. From 1997 to 1999 he worked as a writer-in-residence
at Nottingham Prison. He was the Literature Officer for Leicestershire for
five years and then spent some time as a freelance writer and poetry festival
organiser. He currently teaches creative writing at
Sheffield Hallam University.
He has just published his first full-length collection, The Safe House,
with Shoestring Press.
Here you can find his prison and River Don poems in full, along with pieces on
family and travel. The Safe House can be ordered from Shoestring Press,
Central Books,
or through bookshops.
Chris published a pamphlet collection of poems with
Longbarrow Press
in November 2007. The sequence, entitled Miniatures, is concerned with the
experiences of fatherhood, and reflections on wider family ties. The pamphlet can be
ordered from Brian Lewis, 6 Tenby Close, Lawn, Swindon, SN3 1LN for £4
(inclusive of postage and packaging).
Chris has been asked to write a sequence of poems that will be chiseled on the face
of a new building by the River Don. He was commissioned by Off the Shelf
(www.offtheshelf.org.uk), and the work
will be unveiled sometime in the late spring.
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