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David Jones
War poet David Jones commemorated with maroon plaque
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The unveiled plaque to David Jones On Wednesday 2nd December at 67 Arabin Road, SE4 there was an unveiling of a maroon plaque to commemorate the Great War poet, soldier and artist David Jones (1895-1974), who is buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries. Born in Brockley in 1895 he served in the Royal Welsh…
Director Derek Shiel to introduce screening in chapel of his film – David Jones: Innovation & Consolidation
FOBLC are pleased to welcome Derek Shiel, director of the film to introduce and discuss the work of David Jones DAVID JONES: INNOVATION & CONSOLIDATION The third film of Derek Shiel’s wonderful trilogy takes David Jones from the Second World War up to the time of his death in 1974 at Calvary Nursing Home in Harrow. This deals with Jones…
David Jones Between the Wars: The Years of Achievement
The David Jones Society has commissioned another film about the poet David Jones who lies buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries. Beginning with Jones’s conversion to Roman Catholicism and his joining the Ditchling community in 1921, the film traces his various sojourns in England, Wales and France. Through interviews with scholars, artists, writers and…
Borders in the Literary and Visual Arts of David Jones
The modernist poet David Jones, whose work was greatly admired by T.S. Eliot and W.S. Auden, and who lies buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries is to be featured in a seminar by The David Jones Society in the Dissenter’s Chapel on Saturday 22nd September. You can read Mike Guilfoyle’s account of his life here and…
Tome of the unknown soldier
The World War 1 poet David Jones, who lies buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries, is the subject of an article in the New Statesman by David Wheatley. To read more click here In responsse FOBLC member and literary expect Mike Guilfoyle has written the following letter to the New Statesman commenting on this…
David Jones: war poet and genius: by Mike Guilfoyle
It is humbling to think that this ‘modern genius’ at once painter, poet, essayist, and engraver’ lies almost unknown in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries(close to the graves of Ernest Dowson & Fernando Del Marmol) even though David Jones is critically acclaimed as one of the five greatest modern writers along with Eliot, Joyce, Woolf…