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 PublicationsSheffield Poetry Festival 31 May – 9 June 2013 Friday 31st May sees the launch of the second Sheffield Poetry Festival, a ten-day programme of thirty events celebrating the local, national and international. A range of literary and educational organisations, along with local poetry groups and individual poets, have got together to create a festival that is…
Posted on 26th May 2013 in EventsI’m launching my latest collection, Jigs and Reels (Shoestring Books), at Watestone’s Orchard Square, Sheffield on Wednesday 24th April at 6.30 p.m. There will be a talk, reading and book signing. If you are interested in coming along then get in touch (cwjones@mac.com).
Posted on 18th April 2013 in EventsI’m taking part in a poetry event on Wednesday 10th April at Blackwell’s bookshop, Mappin Street, Sheffield. I’m performing with the poets Kathy Towers, Laura Webb, and John Challis. The reading begins at 6.30 p.m.
Posted on 5th April 2013 in EventsA sequence of my poems featured at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe alongside a number of other artists’ works. The exhibition, curated by and featuring the work of Paul Evans, ran from December 2012 until the middle of January 2013. The event included photographs, paintings and drawings, a sound installation, digital and video artworks each…
Posted on 5th January 2013 in CommissionsThe Longbarrow Press exhibition Scale at Bloc Projects (Sheffield) featured a series of film collaborations involving artists and poets who focused on ideas of micro and macro perspectives of the world. As part of this initiative, I produced a film-poem entitled ‘Skin’ with the photographer Karl Hurst. The work focuses on a period of illness in…
Posted on 5th January 2013 in News