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BBC Programme on the National Library of Wales  ft. Jones's 'In Parenthesis'

7/29/2020

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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  
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Lecture by Anthony Domestico, 16 July

7/9/2020

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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

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Fr. Bob Ombres, OP on David Jones

5/28/2020

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Fr. Bob Ombres (Dominican priest at Blackfriars, Oxford) speaks about David Jones as part of the "Not Just Theologians" podcast,

Listen to the podcast here (about 18 m): youtu.be/_eBNYDd-_CQ

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DJRC 2020 Seminar: Postponed

4/27/2020

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Given the ongoing precariousness of the lockdown situation, David Jones Research Center annual seminar originally scheduled for this coming 3-5 June will need to be postponed -- hopefully to later in the year. The DJRC is looking into the possibility of remote participation, and so if you are in any way interested in participating in the seminar in any way, please fill out the form on the DJRC website, found here:

www.davidjonesresearch.org/2020-seminar
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"The Word Made Strange": Seminar and Talk on Jones with the Eighth Day Institute

4/2/2020

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Just Recently we were sent info of a seminar that took place this past December on the topic of Jones, Chesterton and Auden on Incarnation. Find a summary below. The image, clearly inspired by Jones's own art, is an original inscription by Dr. Gaelan Gilbert of St. Katherine University.  

"A David Jones seminar was held as a one-day event on December 9 at the Eighth Day Institute (EDI) in Wichita KS. A group of about 8 academics/artists prepared for the seminar by reading selections of Jones work and studying several of his paintings and painted inscriptions. The group enjoyed approx. 4-5 hours of presentation and discussion focusing on several themes in Jones' work: 1) the idea of the availability (or non-availability) of certain words for poetic deployment, and the accompanying question of what the role and work of a poet is in the modern world, whether a "plank in the bridge between past and present" as Jones said, and/or something else; 2) the question of the relationship between art/poesis & sacrament as explored in Jones' essay of that name and the "Christmas Message from 1960"; 3) the role of poetry/art in responding to and finding something redeemable in the suffering of trauma or war (contra Adorno's statement that "poetry is not possible after Auschwitz"), specifically in In Parenthesis; and 4) theological themes related to the Incarnation of the Logos as it is explored in Anathemata and The Sleeping Lord. 

The seminar's hosting institution, the Eighth Day Institute, is dedicated to "the renewal of culture through faith and learning." At a later event, on December 28, the EDI Christmas Feast, a talk entitled 'The Word Made Strange' was delivered on themes of incarnation and defamiliarization in the poetry of Jones, Chesterton, and Auden. The header image for this piece is a work of word art I made that was inspired by Jones, also on the theme of Christmas/the Incarnation. It incorporates excerpts from Jones' poetry (specifically "The Sleeping Lord" and Anathemata), biblical scriptures, and liturgical texts. Work is continuing on a second, accompanying Jones-esque word art piece on a Paschal theme. For more info about this seminar or the delivered talk, please write to Dr Gaelan Gilbert, Visiting Professor of Arts & Humanities at the University of Saint Katherine, at ggilbert@usk.edu.

You can also find more information about this talk here: www.eighthdayinstitute.org/the-word-made-strange

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New article on Jones in the JML

3/25/2020

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Have a look at the latest issue of The Journal of Modern Literature, highly respected in the field of Modernist Studies: Rachel Pomery (Cambridge), "Ritual, Place, and Pilgrimage: A Topological Approach to David Jones's The Anathémata" 

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.43.2.06
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Jones Paintings on Auction at Christie's: closing 23 January

1/22/2020

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David Jones paintings and engravings on auction at Christie's (Allen and Beryl Freer Colleciton), closing 23 January: 

www.christies.com/salelanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=28780&lid=1&saletitle=&sid=d939e7ca-e435-41df-885e-131a0ad43668&action=refinecoa&selectedids=29116#lot_6251584
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David Jones, Doors of Glass (1931)
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New Article on Jones in Modernism/Modernity

1/22/2020

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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
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William Blake Exhibition at the Tate Britain

1/6/2020

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Exhibition 'William Blake' at the Tate Britain will be on until 2 February, 2020. 

For more details see: 
​www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/william-blake-artist

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Happy Christmas and New Year from the David Jones Society!

1/1/2020

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