DYLAN JONES

DYLAN JONES was born in Greenford, Middlesex. He has lived almost all of his adult life in the mid-Wales village of Cnwch Coch.
He has published one full-length collection of poetry - 'Dreaming Nightly of Dragons' (University of Salzburg-1996).

DYLAN JONES explores most of the common themes of his poetry in the work chosen here. Human interaction with creatures of the wild is evident in several poems. 'Perch' with its glimpse of a tiny swarm of young fish evokes an almost elegiac quality, a sense of frailty imbued with beauty. In 'Vixen No Longer There' the fleeting encounter between poet and fox is full of tension; and in 'Detached, The Robins Are Singing' the disembodied chorus of bird-song, while still delighting, is veritably surreal.

'Bullying Himself' and 'Unable' are poems of inner turmoil.
'Salt & Sand' explores this theme of turmoil further with a presentation of the beleagured Christ.
Following his father's recent death, a number of the poems are concerned with the bleakness of old age, the beginning perhaps, of a longer sequence.