Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries

War Poet

Borders in the Literary and Visual Arts of David Jones

Sep 14, 2012

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in Events

in _Missing Images, David Jones, missing images, Poetry, War Poet

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

Aug 22, 2010

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in Notable Burials

in _Broken Link, David Jones, First World War, War Poet

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

Feb 21, 2010

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in Notable Burials

in David Jones, Famous Graves, First World War, War Poet

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…