The National Library of Wales (home to the most extensive collection of David Jones's papers, including several important paintings and his entire annotated library) is in danger of closing. You can find out more from this article in Nation Cymru: nation.cymru/opinion/are-we-going-to-lose-the-national-library-of-wales/?fbclid=IwAR31MM-9T3QCBUyk3NoTbzMVQc6U8crNi0xxw2umi0RabxmTmwYiSiRFxqQ If you are so inclined, please consider signing this petition to save the NLW: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/244641
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Opportunity possibly of interest to Jones scholars. From the journal website:
"This Special Issue focuses on relationships between modernist poetry and visual culture. Recent scholarship exploring the emergence of twentieth-century forces of modernity increasingly recognizes the rapid dominance of new technologies and diverse varieties of visual culture infusing the “modern”. How might we think of modernist and avant-garde poetics in relation to the proliferation of visual means of expression, consumerism, information, entertainment, fashion, protest, and other modes of modern existence? How are modernist forms and poetic genres attenuated by visual culture and its technologies, circuits, and values? How are received ideas about modernist poetry enriched, challenged, and/or revised when read through the lens of visual culture?The following questions offer potential directions for essays linking modernist poetry and visual culture, although other topics are welcome. Modernist Poetry and Visual Culture
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