Welcome to The Black Mountains of Wales            

It is self evident that no man works in complete isolation. 

This site is designed to give those interested a greater insight into the forces that lie behind the creative work of the stockman poet

John Jones

R.S.Thomas described Jones' early work as 'better than most'.  Much later Sam Smith writing in Poetry Quarterly Review said 'John Jones is R.S.Thomas with muscles, he writes from within hill farming experience, the poetry consequently as hard as the life, and as impressively arranged as wet granite.  His poetry is shaped to the land, to the moment:  John Jones whittles at, shapes and crafts poems like a piece of winter wood: they are worth long contemplation.'  Other well respected poets have joined the praise; Chris Torrance:  'His poems accurately delineate light and day, depth and dark night.  The worlds John Jones sets in motion are truly visionary, uniquely rendered; a constant delight and discovery to read.'

New Book  'Carreg Las'  Out Now

    the blue stones

winter in the blacks

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History is a process of remembrance.

jojo