Critical Praise

" I actually think there is some downright bad writing here. These poems are trying too hard"

- Martin Stannard, Thought Disorder review for Stride. 


"Finally, a poet who can reach me on this lonely plateau, where middle-aged duds circle my malnourished bookshelf like vultures flapping wings of twee verse, their pretty beaks sharpened on domestic landscapes I couldn't give a fuck about."

-Bobby Parker, Thought Disorder review for Ink Sweat & Tears


"the reader can never be sure-footed when making their way through his work - the rug is pulled from under you, and then the floorboards."

-Jon Stone, Thought Disorder review for Dr. Fulminare [this review pretty much sums up how I feel about TD now]


"Jones’ manipulation of form and structure produces a reader who is never really feels certain about where, when, who or even how he is. The overall result of this is a quite daringly immediate association between the title of the collection and the works it contains which is something that is all-too-easily overlooked when composing a first collection, and it is to Jones’ credit that although the world in the poems is familiarly strange the reader is never allowed to get completely lost. That this book displays such consideration imbues these poems with wisdom usually beyond authors as young as Jones."

-CJ Underwood, Thought Disorder review for Hand+Star. 


"What I love about Jones's work is the way it gives you the wild juxtapositions, dazzling colours and irresistible wit of the surreal, but then pulls your mind up short with a moment of such delicacy and slightness that you're placed in the scene without warning and without your shoes on, anxious and blinking. It's as beautiful and strange as poetry should be. There's a tension and an urgency to these poems, the recognition of a failed transcendence...bound up in the need to reach beyond the everyday and a tacit awareness that he already has."

-Luke Kennard, Thought Disorder blurb, 2010


"Subversive, traditional, perverse and inevitable, place your orders now for the paradox of the new kid on the block."

-Todd Swift, Thought Disorder blurb, 2010


"dry wit and clear eye...an entirely new way."

-Jenna Butler, Thought Disorder blurb, 2010