Chris Jones
Poetry

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Little Piece of Harm

My latest collection of poems is available from Longbarrow Press.  Little Piece of Harm is a narrative sequence that focuses on 24 hours in the life of a city that has been shut down in the aftermath of a shooting. As this act of violence ramifies outwards, the sequence explores the geographical reach of Sheffield…

Posted on 28th March 2021 in Publications

Companion Stones For Guide Stoops

I was commissioned by Arts in the Peaks, along with eleven other poets and six artists, to produce a poem-text for one of a set of twelve companion stones that would be placed beside a guide stoop (an early form of directional marking from the 18th Century) on the Peak District moors. Back in the…

Posted on 16th March 2012 in Commissions, Poetry

Cells

Chris Jones collaborated with Paul Evans on a series of watercolours entitled ‘Cells’. Chris wrote haikus to go along with the paintings. The work was shown at the Cupola Art Gallery, Sheffield, then at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe and furthermore in the Origin010 exhibition at the SIA Gallery, Sheffield. A slideshow of the Cells. Art Critic…

Posted on 16th March 2012 in Commissions, Poetry

Lost

In autumn 2006 I worked in collaboration with a digital artist and arts organisation with the view of putting up a piece of art in the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. I created a visual poem with Lovebytes Digital Arts and the Dutch Graphic Design studio Renascent: my poem ‘Lost’ was transformed into a film that highlighted animation,…

Posted on 16th March 2012 in Commissions

At the End of the Road, a River

Click here to view the full project The River Don begins in the Pennines on the gritstone moors above Penistone, and ends its seventy mile progress easing through the wide flat-lands of Humberside, joining the River Ouse at Goole. The section of the river that interests me, that I have sought to depict in this…

Posted on 5th March 2012 in Publications

The Safe House

The Safe House has been a long time in the making. The book almost feels like a Selected Poems from the past ten years, what with my prison poems included as a section, and the river poems having a ‘chapter’ too. There’s lots of new work here as well, poems written in the last five…

Posted on 2nd March 2012 in Publications

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