David Jones, Doors of Glass (1931)

Pleased to announce a new article on David Jones by Neal Alexander (Aberystwyth) in the latest issue of Modernism/Modernity: "History, Geography, Poetry: David Jones's Late Modernism" Modernism/Modernity 26, no. 4 (November 2019). More information available here on Project MUSE: 

​muse.jhu.edu/article/744794

Pleased to announce the publication of the much-anticipated French translation of Jones's In Parenthesis, titled: Entre parenthèses, trans. Christine Pagnoulle (EPURE, 2019). More information available here (in French): www.lcdpu.fr/livre/?GCOI=27000100627130&fbclid=IwAR1f497RVnzi6gl7S4tLKHB01_-ySd4tI62O400d0SAfjawxPZLqBRc6hiE

David Jones's The Grail Mass and Other Works (ed. Thomas Goldpaugh and Jamie Callison, Bloomsbury, 2018) is a new edition of several interrelated poetic manuscripts written and re-written by David Jones between the 1930s and 1960s and from which The Anathemata: Fragments of an Attempted Writing (1952) and The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments (1974) were extracted. Below are the reviews to date: 

Adam Schwartz, "These Global Days," The Kirk Center (6 October 2019), kirkcenter.org/reviews/these-global-days/

Rosie Lavan, The Review of English Studies (17 September 2019)  https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz101 

Paul Fiddes, Literature and Theology (29 June 2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frz011

Liam Guilar, GoodReads (26 June 2019), www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867139585

A reminder that there will be several events in Sidmouth this coming 28 October (a Monday) to commemorate of David Jones on the 45th anniversary of his death: 
11:00 am, Mass for David Jones on the anniversary of his death at Most Precious Blood Parish (5 Radway, Sidmouth EX10 8TW) 

~11:30 am, Talk by Dr. Mary Coghill (Exeter) on David Jones in St. Teresa's Hall (Connaught Road Sidmouth Devon EX10 8TT -- adjoining MPB Parish with common car park)

Afternoon: A walk with Mary to visit the recently instated Blue Plaque in Sidmouth dedicated to David Jones (details of exact time and meeting-place forthcoming) 

If you would like to attend, please email Mary Coghill directly to give her a sense of numbers: M.Coghill@exeter.ac.uk

Review of recently published collection of essays on Jones (David Jones: A Christian Modernist? eds. Callison, Fiddes, Johnson, Tonning, Brill, 2018) for Reading Religion (reviewer: Alex Assaly): readingreligion.org/books/david-jones?fbclid=IwAR3ggWK1w9aIr6gFFglLgQ-gLajw9J9-Bm0AxegdEq4LOgbM8v339QSt65o