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

Jigs and Reels

Jigs and Reels came out in May 2013: a chapbook published by Shoestring Press.  The central sequence envisages the poems almost as ‘folk’ songs combined into ‘sets’: two poems spliced together to create thematic couplings on the page.  The pieces explore issues of family, fatherhood, mortality, and another folk ‘standard’ – the impact of war. The first…

Posted on 22nd July 2013 in Publications

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