{"product_id":"9780708317075","title":"T.H. Jones: Poet of Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003eT.H. Jones (1921-1965) achieved little recognition in Wales or Britain during his lifetime.  After publishing his first volume of poetry in 1957, he emigrated to Australia, where his career as a poet and lecturer came to a sadly premature end when he was accidentally drowned.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT.H. Jones: Poet of Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is the first literary biography of an undervalued writer who, the authors suggest, should be thought of as one of the defining poets of mid-twentieth-century Welsh culture, alongside Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas.  This perceptive study locates Jones in his social and cultural contexts and demonstrates his considerable achievement as a transitional figure in the development of 'Anglo-Welsh' poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe authors draw extensively on unpublished sources, such as Jones's extraordinary hand-written 'Black Book' which contains nearly all his poems in chronological order, and on interviews with those closest to Jones.  It is a valuable record of a writer important both because of the poetry he wrote and because of what his life has so powerfully to reveal to us about his culture, his period and his place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014465831152,"sku":"9780708317075","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780708317075_p0.jpg?v=1763628478","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780708317075","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}