Poetic Obituaries: [Brian] Jones was of the view that

the poet has a responsibility to speak for those who have, as it were, no voice.

The attraction of Jones's first two collections lay in the way in which he converted the personal and domestic into telling verse. Even the lyrics had stories to tell that were never merely confessional. When he wrote in a poem that his father was dead (in fact, his father died only recently), Jones struggled to understand why he was receiving calls of condolence. His adult education students readily recall his interest in what he referred to as "poetic li(v)es".

from The Guardian: Brian Jones

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