Douglas Gordon Jones is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, translator

Translation

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 and educator.

Born in Bancroft

Bancroft, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Jones was educated at a private school in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

's Eastern Townships

Eastern Townships

The Eastern Townships is a tourist region and a former administrative region in south-eastern Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. Its northern boundary roughly followed Logan's Line, the geologic boundary between the flat,...

, at McGill University

McGill University

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 and at Queen's University

Queen's University

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. He received his M.A. from Queen's University in 1954. Jones then taught English literature

English literature

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 at Bishop's University

Bishop's University

Bishop's University is a predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Bishop's is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in the English language...

 and the Université de Sherbrooke

Université de Sherbrooke

The Université de Sherbrooke is a large university with campuses located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It is one of two universities, and the only French language university, in the Estrie region of Quebec.In 2007, the...

. In 1969, Jones co-founded the bilingual literary journal Ellipse, which continues to be the only literary periodical in Canada which provides reciprocal translations, in equal measure, of both English and French Canadian poetry.

Jones has been a member of the Arts and Advisory Panel of the Canada Council

Canada Council

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. His 1978 collection, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth, received the 1978 Governor General's Award for Poetry

1978 Governor General's Awards

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. His rendition of Normand de Bellefeuille's Categorics One, Two and Three received the 1993 Governor General's Award for Translation

1993 Governor General's Awards

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Considered a seminal figure of the mythopoeic strain of Canadian poetry, Jones is also a highly-respected essayist and translator. His key work of critical writing is Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature (1970).

Poetry

• Frost on the Sun (1957)
• The Sun is Axeman (1961)
• Phrases from Orpheus (1967)
• Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth (1977)
• A Throw of Particles (1983)
• Balthazar and Other Poems (1988)
• A Thousand Hooded Eyes (1990)
• The Floating Garden (1995)
• Wild Asterisks in Cloud (1997)
• Grounding Sight (1999)
• Forget-me-nots

Translations

• Paul-Marie Lapointe. The Terror of the Snows: Selected Poems (1976)
• Paul-Marie Lapointe. The Fifth Season (1986)
• Normand de Bellefeuille, Categorics One, Two, Three (1992)
• Gaston Miron. Embers and Earth: Selected Poems (1994)
• Emile Martel. Pour orchestre et po te seul, For Orchestra and Solo Poet (1996)

Awards

• President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, 1976
• Governor General's Award for Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth, 1977
• A.J.M. Smith Award for Poetry, 1977.
• Governor General's Award for Translation Categorics One, Two and Three, 1993.
• A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
  Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
  The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec.-Categories:...
  
  , 1989 and 1995.
• Officer of the Order of Canada (O.C.), 2007

External links

• D. G. Jones's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia