The David Jones Research Center (in conjunction with Washington Adventist University) is proud to present a special address by Dr. Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury and Honorary President of the David Jones Society) on the occasion of David Jones's 125th birthday. The event will be transmitted via the virtual Zoom platform this coming Sunday, 1 November 2020 at 2 pm EST (7 pm GMT). The event is FREE, but registration is required. To register, follow the link below, and "Click to Register," which will take you to a Google Form that you can fill out. Once you have submitted this form, you will receive the Zoom links to join the session on Sunday. If you have any questions at all, please email the David Jones Research Center: djresearch@wau.edu 

Link to registration page: myemail.constantcontact.com/David-Jones-Research-Center-Presents--Rowan-Williams---Nov-1--2020---2pm-EST.html?soid=1103223012346&aid=LEOm9XS6H7w 

Fr. John Scott will say a Latin Requiem Mass for David Jones on 28 October 2020 (46th anniversary of Jones's death) in Westminster Cathedral, 10:30 am. All are welcome. 

A collection of letters from David Jones to Valerie Wynne-Williams were on auction at Bonham's, London. Information and some images are still available to see here: 

www.bonhams.com/auctions/26014/lot/232/

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, discusses Jones' theology of art in an article for the Catholic Herald (from June 2020) titled "David Jones Saw the in the Mass the Divine Foundation of All Art" 

​See below: 
catholicherald.co.uk/david-jones-saw-in-the-mass-the-divine-foundation-of-all-art/

An article in the Church Life Journal from the University of Notre Dame ("The Mark of a Sacramentalist," by Scott Beauchamp) features a discussion of sacramentality in Jones' The Anathemata. 

Read it here: churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-mark-of-a-sacramentalist/​

David Jones continues to inspire artists of all media. In his work, "Starlight Order" (viewable at the link below) pianist Erik Lawrence overlays a recording of David Jones reading from In Parenthesis with simple chords. 

www.bandlab.com/embed/?id=6cc56d2e-1dcd-ea11-8b03-501ac51fd70d&fbclid=IwAR3HUW6uU3DJgeLrCZTpCGHM3T0C2pNU8BRzw_-Yrdsk7_Fz-PIy7URGJdA

A recent airing of BBC's Poetry Extra​ titled "The Great Libraries -- Aberystwyth" has a 6-minute section devoted to a discussion of David Jones's long poem, In Parenthesis. It features a discussion with archivist Nia Mai Daniels of the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) about Jones's manuscript itself; it also includes a short dramatized reading from the final pages of In Parenthesis. 

Viewable at this link for a limited time (discussion of Jones begins around minute 20): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l84s  

Anthony Domestico (SUNY-Purchase) will be giving a talk based on his book Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period (Johns Hopkins, 2017) -- which features a fascinating chapter on David Jones -- for the Zephyr Institute. It will take place via Zoom on next Thursday, 16 July at 16:00-17:00 Pacific Time (18:00 Central, 19:00 EST, 12 Midnight GMT). 

For more details and registration (i.e. to receive the Zoom links), see the Zeyphr Institute website: 
www.zephyr.org/ZephyrEvents/poetry-theology-modernist