D. G. Jones
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Douglas "D. G." Jones (b., 1929, Bancroft, Ontario) is a major Canadian poet.
Douglas Gordon Jones was born in Bancroft, Ontario and educated at a private school in Quebec's Eastern Townships, at McGill University and Queen's University. He received his M.A. from Queen's University in 1954. He then taught English literature at Bishop's University and the Université de Sherbrooke. In 1969 Jones founded the bilingual literary journal Ellipse, which continues to be the only literary periodical in Canada which provides reciprocal translations, in equal measure, of both English and French Canadian poetry.
Jones has been a member of the Arts and Advisory Panel of The Canada Council. His 1978 collection, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth, received the 1978 Governor-General's Award for Poetry.
Considered by many to be one of the seminal figures of the mythopoeic strain of Canadian poetry, Jones is also a highly-respected essayist and translator. His key work of critical writing is Butterfly on rock: a study of themes and images in Canadian literature. His rendition of Normand de Bellefeuille's Categorics One Two and Three received the Governor-General's Translation Award in 1993.
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[edit] Books
- Frost on the Sun (1957)
- The Sun is Axeman (1961)
- Phrases from Orpheus (1967)
- Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature (1970)
- Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth (1977)
- A Throw of Particles (1983)
- Balthazar and Other Poems (1988)
- A Thousand Hooded Eyes (1990)
- The Floating Garden (1995)
- Wild Asterisks in Cloud (1997)
- Grounding Sight (1999)
translations
- By Paul-Marie Lapointe, The Terror of the Snows: Selected Poems (1976)
- By Paul-Marie Lapointe, The Fifth Season (1986)
- By N. de Bellefeuille, Categorics One, Two, Three (1992)
- By G. Miron, Embers and Earth: Selected Poems (1994)
- By Emile Martel, Pour orchestre et po te seul, For Orchestra and Solo Poet (1996)
[edit] Works on Jones
- E.D. Blodgett, The Masks of D.G. Jones, Canadian Literature, no 60 (1974)
- George Bowering, Coming Home to the World, Canadian Literature, no 65 (1975)
[edit] Selected Anthologies
- 15 Canadian Poets x 2. (Oxford University Press).
- Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology. (Coach House Press).
- Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. (Oxford University Press).
[edit] Awards
- President's Medal (from the University of Western Ontario), 1976
- Governor General's Award for Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth , 1977
- A.J.M. Smith Award for Poetry, 1977.
- Governor General's Award for Translation Categorics One, Two and Three, 1993.
- QSPELL: A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, 1989 and 1995.
