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Patrick Jones

Patrick Jones

About Patrick Jones

Since 1970… Lives and works Daylesford, VIC, Australia. Currently undertaking doctoral work within the Writing and Society Research Group, UWS, Sydney.



Carless

we have spent money cleaning it and having it worthy of the road. we’re a little tense as it’s raining and one of us, eight years old, is not so aware or interested in the effects of mud on upholstery. …

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All Rights Relinquished: Permapoesis

While writing this work I have been eating wild foods, vegetables from my garden and a small amount of transported agricultural product. I am in transition, along with my family and some community friends, to relocalise food and energy resources and address the degree to which our participation in a hyper-mediated society degrades the ecologies that support us.

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Patrick Jones: ebay activism

Patrick Jones is a conundrum: installationist, artist, provocateur, former bookshop owner and – yes, let's say it – poet. Readers of Cordite would be familiar with Patrick's contributions to the magazine over a period of years, including his cover image …

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Patrick Jones: Graffiti Wall on the move

Patrick writes: “With Melbourne City Council's zero tolerance of graffiti and the war that the Herald Sun launched on graf artists [leading up to the Commonwealth Games], a work was devised that both celebrated graf art and mocked the corporate …

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Patrick Jones responds to James Stuart

When a poet works with a designer, publisher, artist, typesetter, printmaker, stone mason (in Finlay's case), earthmover, or sign writer there is the potential for the poem to materialise (a shift from transformation), and keep us on our feet.

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Patrick Jones: Hector's Insult: war music prohibition signs

Previous issues of Cordite have featured several pieces by Lyonville-based artist and poet Patrick Jones. His “Monument for the Unmanned” (one of a series of “deserter memorials as public works”) was in fact the cover image for Issue 11.

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Patrick Jones: Air Frost

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