Welcome
Welcome to the official webpages of writer Patrick Jones. Here you will find details of current projects, past works and contact information.
NEWS
Patrick has just been appointed Poet in Residence at Velindre Hospital near Cardiff.He will work with staff, patients and family members on a poetry project and readings and workshops.He said, "I am honoured to be asked to be involved in such a meaningful and relevant project using poetry and creative expression in such a human way.It's what poetry is meant for."
He will start in May.
"all truth passes through three stages.first, it is
ridiculed. second, it is violently opposed.third, it
is accepted as being self -evident"
Arthur Schopenhauer
Readings;
31st May 2012
The Dic Penderyn Society
Merthyr Tydfil
23rd October
Hen and Chicks
Abergavenny
Dear Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg and Mr Lansley,.................
THE HEALING HOUSE
"the public interest is taken care of by the private
interest of wanting to make money"
John Redwood 1994
"we have been the dreamers, we have been the
sufferers, now we are the builders"
Aneurin Bevan, 1945
bring your children to the nursery
with their disease and sickness,
this is the place where I hope to cure all illness
at the point of need, this is an emergency
come now, our tomorrow
rest yourself
as i halt fear and heal bone marrow,
and, from an early death
i promise emancipation,
with my doctors, nurses
and vaccinations
let in the mothers
the pool is ready for another,
carer of the next generation,
sleep, prepare for this new birth,
I offer you protection,
as you grow the roots of our new earth
welcome, people from other nations,
with troubled faces from distant places,
i have room for you, my new patients,
i have no borders to caring,
pain has no dialect, this language is for sharing
let love be found in translation
sit, eat from my pantry,
become healthy
as you, you are my ultimate test,
bring me your tortured tongues
so you may speak again
from far off battlefields show your scarred flesh
so i can stem the blood and heal your pain.
to you, the wiser, the elderly, the old,
do not be afraid, do not huddle in the cold,
my door is open,
come in, come in,
it is warm, trust us,
and i shall lance the boils of poverty's injustice,
and drain the infection,
as in my house these rooms
offer cure by prevention,
and so to the sick, to the dying, those crippled with
disease
stay, in my garden,
breath,
lay, beneath the trees
i shall provide peace and serenity
to strengthen the health of vulnerablity
no matter what age, sex, class, race or country,
my windows pour penicillin
my library, the words of the masters,
Simpson, Pasteur and Fleming
not market forces or ignorant capitalists
so be careful how you treat your house, our home
never neglect or leave alone
keep clean, add extensions
but never damage the bricks or remove my foundations
from the wasteland of squalor, disease and
dereliction,
I am the safe place
the healing home
injecting cells with reconstruction,
the everlasting bandage
to deliver all from illnessed bondage
I am the suture
to stitch the wounds of the past
but i am the scalpel
to carve the future
to make this dream last
to make this dream last.
"the verb is more important than the noun"
Aneurin Bevan
bullies are everywhere........................
THEY
they;
twist your face
until it offends you
a disfigured appraisal
that fills their holes
the thoughts of suicide
that keep you alive
lead to
a much mauled mirror maze
of insecured paths
that lead nowhere
but they,
under the gawp gaze of cloned masculinity
stay stay stay
as
indelible scars
make
invisible fists,
that still
fight the thin air
they,
left,
left
THE CRUCIFIXIONS
(For Alan Turing)
'We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. '
Alan Turing
‘the sight of two men kissing is very creepy’
Nick Griffin, bnp leader
'”if Stephen Gately's death serves as a warning to millions of Boyzone fans not to get involved in his heartless world of degradation and depravity it will not have been in vain. I just hope he was praying in repentance when he died, praying for God to forgive him his sins by the merits of the blood of Jesus Christ, asking for release for his tortured mind and fellowship with the God who alone has power to forgive and restore. I pray to see Gately in heaven, repentant, forgiven, restored, washed clean in the blood of Jesus. Amen
Stephen Green, Christian Voice
Hold the prisoner in a windowless cell,
Place a crown of thorns upon their head,
Let it dig deep into flesh,lead
Them through the spiteful streets,
Call them names, spit at them,
Then whip and flog their skin
Until it bleeds
Then tie the prisoner to a wooden cross
Raise it to the sky
Hammer steel nails
Into hands and feet
And leave to wilt in
The glare of the burning sun
Set the guard night and day
Allow no one to bring water
Until the prisoner is drained of blood
And dies upon the cross,
The crowd shall hiss with laughter,
Then
Cut them down
And drag the body to a dark cave
Roll a rock to block the light
And leave to rot
But
This time
There will be no immortalization
No floating to heaven
No prayers, no choirs
As the rock will stay firm in its place
The body will decompose
Fade with flies
And worms,
And
Nothing will be left
But the memory
Of
The man who loved a man
And the woman who kissed her reflection
and the child that trusted the priest
No Gethsemane
Just the streets of Liverpool,Dublin, Baghdad, Kampala and Laramie
No monument
Just laughter from the pulpit
And songs from the aisles
And
The congregations shall order
More and more crosses
Which shall be put on more and more hills,
Ready,
Waiting, Warm,
Patrick has just finished an exciting collaboration with The Welsh Refugee Council and Arts Council of Wales to create three filmpoems made with three former refugees who are now citizens living and working in Wales called "Me and Mine". The dvd will be available online soon.
Patrick now has tracks on soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/patrickjonespoet
Patrick has been offered a new commission by the National Theatre of Wales for his play "THE CRUSADES" . It promises to be his most radical, provocative, challenging, humorous and dangerous work yet. " This is the most exciting news I have had for years and i am proud to be involved in the NTW's programme for the next two years and working with John McGrath and his fantastic team" said Patrick on hearing the news. He describes it as " A fusion of The Life of Brian, Four Lions, Accused (Jimmy McGovern) and The Plague by Albert Camus"
He will be setting out on the road this Autumn/Winter performing all over the UK with his "throatcursed" tour. Details to follow shortly.
"Thoughtful, provocative and challenging, these poems engage and
enrage"
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
“Very strong stuff”
Harold Pinter
A NEW POEM
THE LIE
I found the lie again this morning
I shouldn't have looked
but i'm sorry, I did
went searching under beds
and amongst names,
it lay so still, I wasn't sure if it was still alive
so I poked it,
held it, almost cradled it
took it outside
into the bright sunlight
gave it the kiss of life
it grew and grew
stood up once more
stretched and looked at me
then walked away, shouting names,dates,times,clues and crimes,
I ran after it,
clawing, stumbling through thicket,
tried to stop it going
knocked it to the floor kicked and punched it
til it lay lifeless once more,
I picked it up,
carried it inside,
as before,
I hide it in a secret place
closed the door
swallowed the key
and sat in the sun
i know where the lie is now,
but I can't tell anyone
what I have done-
THE JUST
(for Sakineh Mohammada Ashtiani)
this is just the sound of a pen scratching
this is just the noise of ink leaking
but hold still, listen, wince pray
as the Just scatter their prayers to prostrated minions
and sermons are spat to subservient millions
like sand thrown in eyes,
into Just hearts and Just minds
as Just hands pick up Just stones and are
just thrown onto just a woman
who just happened to talk to a man or just walk in daylight near a house where a man looked through a window or received a phone call from a
man
and so
The Just adjudicate and
just sentenced her to Just stoning
and take her to a place she did not know
and just buried her up to her neck in the Just earth
and the Just people just gathered just passed just wandered up to
just have a look and just picked up a Just rock and
just threw it and it just hit this woman that they only just met
and just murdered her who had
merely
talked or walked laughed or cooked written read or worked next with to by a mere man who was not her husband and and and
listen listen l is t e n
to the Just prayers for her soul,
the Just decisions the Just snarls, the Just smiles of
The Just men who
just murdered, just stoned, just annhilated an innocent woman
for JUST being a woman
so just listen to the Just crowd the Just crack the Just snap the Just scream
the Just silence
JUST LISTEN then,
just stop just stop
and then, and only then will justice be done;
Patrick's poem "Mountains of Man" is being turned into a dance film by Striking Attitudes. An exciting collaboration between words, movement and music directed by Caroline Lamb supported by The Arts Council of Wales.
more info at www.strikingattitudes.com
Patrick is now working on his new cd of poetry and music. To be released late 2011.
“Striking enough to do for Welsh theatre what the
Manics and Stereophonics have done for its music”
The Guardian review of “Everything Must Go”
UPDATE;
Patrick's CD "tongues for a stammering time" is now only £5 with free p & p.
See it in the Shop Section.
Featuring Billy Bragg, Nicky Wire, James Dean Bradfield, Martyn Joseph, Steve Balsamo, Lethargy, Henry Priestman and many others.
PERFORMANCES
Patrick will be hitting the road this Autumn/Winter for a series of readings/ performances and workshops.
review from Anarchist Voices
Patrick Jones: Tongues For A Stammering Time
This CD was the complete opposite of what I expected. It doesn’t matter what I expected and it’s not to say that I was disappointed, just that I put the CD into the player perhaps thinking I was going to hear some solo singer-songwriter angst but I was surprised to say the least. Patrick Jones is a poet for those not in the know like me. And a playwright too. And his works are controversial, provocative, expressive and gritty but with a beauty that only someone so good at their craft can achieve. So, what does the CD sound like? Well, it’s not just ‘Spoken Word’. It’s subtle and it’s loud and it’s folky and there’s even some thrash metal in there so don’t expect me to pigeonhole it. The musical soundtracks and scores range from acoustic songs to experimental sounds that not only accompany but capture the brutality and destruction considered so thoughtfully within some of the harsh subject matter. I found some of the listening a challenge, not so much because of the style of music accompanying the poems but because of the unflinching nature of the writing. Violence against men, the war in Iraq and religious fundamentalism are just some of the subjects covered amongst some of the most personal poems that push the boundaries and challenge the listener whilst keeping the intimacy and personal views held to make the listener both think about what they have heard and afterwards contemplate their own humanity. With a musical score that has the likes of Martyn Joseph, Billy Bragg and a couple of the Manic Street Preachers involved, you know the music has not been added as an after-thought but carefully considered to contribute to the listeners experience of the poems. It was the less experimental scores that were music to my ears though and the likes of Amy Wadge adding flesh to the bones of Jones’ words to give a different interpretation to Jones’ Mankind. And a sampled voice of Thatcher on The Healing House before the unmistakable guitar sound of Billy Bragg creeps in to bring the song/poem to its conclusion again served as an example of how to add poetry to music, of how to make a CD of ‘spoken word’ interesting, innovative and exciting whilst losing nothing of the thoughts expressed. Me, I checked out www.patrick-jones.net and read some of the poems silently to myself. And I recommend you do that yourself if you are able. Then get the CD and hear Patrick Jones read them in his own accent.
Chris Butler
Patrick Jones Tongues For A Stammering Time is released on Anhrefn Records (Anhrefn 022)
Excellent words from
recordstore.co.uk
'Tongues For A Stammering Time' is a startling howl of outrage from Welsh musician and poet Patrick Jones. Featuring performances from James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Billy Bragg and many more luminaries, this is the perfect soundtrack for our troubled times."
www.recordstore.co.uk
The cd is now available from itunes, amazon, recordstore.co.uk and play.com
Full track listing;
1. moment of light - featuring les davies
2. the healing house - featuring billy bragg and beverley humphreys
3. mankind - featuring amy wadge
4. keys to your kingdom- featuring les davies
5. they- featuring greg haver and studio arcade
6. sapflow - featuring nicky wire
7. hymn
8. in absentia - featuring james dean bradfield
9. meat- featuring defiance of god and steve balsamo
10. the love of blood - featuring henry priestman
11. revelation- featuring james dean bradfield
12. the other- featuring martyn joseph
13. for i am in you you are in me and we are in us - featuring les davies
14. when we become mountains- featuring defiance of god and steve balsamo
15. white feather fallopian - featuring new state radio
16. the memory of steel - featuring julian gardner
17. valleys comprehensive - featuring dean meyrick and perigo minas
18. treelunged - featuring lethargy
19. the bells of rhymney 2007 - featuring ian devine
20. dysunitednation - featuring les davies and dean meyrick
21. 11/11/11 - featuring james dean bradfield
22.carelines - featuring jeb loy nichols
23.dandelion
24.me,we - featuring stacey blythe
Welcome to the official webpages of writer Patrick Jones. Here you will find details of current projects, past works and contact information.
Patrick is a poet, playwright, human rights activist and filmmaker. His work includes the poetry collections The Guerilla tapestry and Fuse, the CD of spoken word and music Commemoration and Amnesia and the plays Everything Must Go, Unprotected Sex, The War is Dead long live the war and Sing to Me. He has also directed short films and videos for the bands The Manic Street Preachers and Lethargy.
Patrick is also committed to taking words to the whole of the community and has developed writing groups for young people in Wales and beyond, developed and co-ordinated writing and drama workshops for people of all ages and from a mixed background, attended many different organisations from
community groups to universities to speak about writing and give readings of work. Set-up various writing projects for people with specific needs, for example hospice patients, school non-attendees, mental health patients and most recently the young homeless.He has worked with various communty based projects with NCH, The Welsh National Opera, St. David’s Foundation Hospice Care and The Dyn Project ( advocacy for men who have
experienced domestic violence) and The Prison Service.
He is always looking to further and develop his work so please feel free to use the "contact us" section to get in touch with Patrick about any aspect of his work or future collaborations.He is involved in this site and will visit it regularly.
Thank you.
NEWS
Patrick has just been appointed Poet in Residence at Velindre Hospital near Cardiff.He will work with staff, patients and family members on a poetry project and readings and workshops.He said, "I am honoured to be asked to be involved in such a meaningful and relevant project using poetry and creative expression in such a human way.It's what poetry is meant for."
He will start in May.
"all truth passes through three stages.first, it is
ridiculed. second, it is violently opposed.third, it
is accepted as being self -evident"
Arthur Schopenhauer
Readings;
31st May 2012
The Dic Penderyn Society
Merthyr Tydfil
23rd October
Hen and Chicks
Abergavenny
Dear Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg and Mr Lansley,.................
THE HEALING HOUSE
"the public interest is taken care of by the private
interest of wanting to make money"
John Redwood 1994
"we have been the dreamers, we have been the
sufferers, now we are the builders"
Aneurin Bevan, 1945
bring your children to the nursery
with their disease and sickness,
this is the place where I hope to cure all illness
at the point of need, this is an emergency
come now, our tomorrow
rest yourself
as i halt fear and heal bone marrow,
and, from an early death
i promise emancipation,
with my doctors, nurses
and vaccinations
let in the mothers
the pool is ready for another,
carer of the next generation,
sleep, prepare for this new birth,
I offer you protection,
as you grow the roots of our new earth
welcome, people from other nations,
with troubled faces from distant places,
i have room for you, my new patients,
i have no borders to caring,
pain has no dialect, this language is for sharing
let love be found in translation
sit, eat from my pantry,
become healthy
as you, you are my ultimate test,
bring me your tortured tongues
so you may speak again
from far off battlefields show your scarred flesh
so i can stem the blood and heal your pain.
to you, the wiser, the elderly, the old,
do not be afraid, do not huddle in the cold,
my door is open,
come in, come in,
it is warm, trust us,
and i shall lance the boils of poverty's injustice,
and drain the infection,
as in my house these rooms
offer cure by prevention,
and so to the sick, to the dying, those crippled with
disease
stay, in my garden,
breath,
lay, beneath the trees
i shall provide peace and serenity
to strengthen the health of vulnerablity
no matter what age, sex, class, race or country,
my windows pour penicillin
my library, the words of the masters,
Simpson, Pasteur and Fleming
not market forces or ignorant capitalists
so be careful how you treat your house, our home
never neglect or leave alone
keep clean, add extensions
but never damage the bricks or remove my foundations
from the wasteland of squalor, disease and
dereliction,
I am the safe place
the healing home
injecting cells with reconstruction,
the everlasting bandage
to deliver all from illnessed bondage
I am the suture
to stitch the wounds of the past
but i am the scalpel
to carve the future
to make this dream last
to make this dream last.
"the verb is more important than the noun"
Aneurin Bevan
bullies are everywhere........................
THEY
they;
twist your face
until it offends you
a disfigured appraisal
that fills their holes
the thoughts of suicide
that keep you alive
lead to
a much mauled mirror maze
of insecured paths
that lead nowhere
but they,
under the gawp gaze of cloned masculinity
stay stay stay
as
indelible scars
make
invisible fists,
that still
fight the thin air
they,
left,
left
THE CRUCIFIXIONS
(For Alan Turing)
'We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. '
Alan Turing
‘the sight of two men kissing is very creepy’
Nick Griffin, bnp leader
'”if Stephen Gately's death serves as a warning to millions of Boyzone fans not to get involved in his heartless world of degradation and depravity it will not have been in vain. I just hope he was praying in repentance when he died, praying for God to forgive him his sins by the merits of the blood of Jesus Christ, asking for release for his tortured mind and fellowship with the God who alone has power to forgive and restore. I pray to see Gately in heaven, repentant, forgiven, restored, washed clean in the blood of Jesus. Amen
Stephen Green, Christian Voice
Hold the prisoner in a windowless cell,
Place a crown of thorns upon their head,
Let it dig deep into flesh,lead
Them through the spiteful streets,
Call them names, spit at them,
Then whip and flog their skin
Until it bleeds
Then tie the prisoner to a wooden cross
Raise it to the sky
Hammer steel nails
Into hands and feet
And leave to wilt in
The glare of the burning sun
Set the guard night and day
Allow no one to bring water
Until the prisoner is drained of blood
And dies upon the cross,
The crowd shall hiss with laughter,
Then
Cut them down
And drag the body to a dark cave
Roll a rock to block the light
And leave to rot
But
This time
There will be no immortalization
No floating to heaven
No prayers, no choirs
As the rock will stay firm in its place
The body will decompose
Fade with flies
And worms,
And
Nothing will be left
But the memory
Of
The man who loved a man
And the woman who kissed her reflection
and the child that trusted the priest
No Gethsemane
Just the streets of Liverpool,Dublin, Baghdad, Kampala and Laramie
No monument
Just laughter from the pulpit
And songs from the aisles
And
The congregations shall order
More and more crosses
Which shall be put on more and more hills,
Ready,
Waiting, Warm,
Patrick has just finished an exciting collaboration with The Welsh Refugee Council and Arts Council of Wales to create three filmpoems made with three former refugees who are now citizens living and working in Wales called "Me and Mine". The dvd will be available online soon.
Patrick now has tracks on soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/patrickjonespoet
Patrick has been offered a new commission by the National Theatre of Wales for his play "THE CRUSADES" . It promises to be his most radical, provocative, challenging, humorous and dangerous work yet. " This is the most exciting news I have had for years and i am proud to be involved in the NTW's programme for the next two years and working with John McGrath and his fantastic team" said Patrick on hearing the news. He describes it as " A fusion of The Life of Brian, Four Lions, Accused (Jimmy McGovern) and The Plague by Albert Camus"
He will be setting out on the road this Autumn/Winter performing all over the UK with his "throatcursed" tour. Details to follow shortly.
"Thoughtful, provocative and challenging, these poems engage and
enrage"
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
“Very strong stuff”
Harold Pinter
A NEW POEM
THE LIE
I found the lie again this morning
I shouldn't have looked
but i'm sorry, I did
went searching under beds
and amongst names,
it lay so still, I wasn't sure if it was still alive
so I poked it,
held it, almost cradled it
took it outside
into the bright sunlight
gave it the kiss of life
it grew and grew
stood up once more
stretched and looked at me
then walked away, shouting names,dates,times,clues and crimes,
I ran after it,
clawing, stumbling through thicket,
tried to stop it going
knocked it to the floor kicked and punched it
til it lay lifeless once more,
I picked it up,
carried it inside,
as before,
I hide it in a secret place
closed the door
swallowed the key
and sat in the sun
i know where the lie is now,
but I can't tell anyone
what I have done-
THE JUST
(for Sakineh Mohammada Ashtiani)
this is just the sound of a pen scratching
this is just the noise of ink leaking
but hold still, listen, wince pray
as the Just scatter their prayers to prostrated minions
and sermons are spat to subservient millions
like sand thrown in eyes,
into Just hearts and Just minds
as Just hands pick up Just stones and are
just thrown onto just a woman
who just happened to talk to a man or just walk in daylight near a house where a man looked through a window or received a phone call from a
man
and so
The Just adjudicate and
just sentenced her to Just stoning
and take her to a place she did not know
and just buried her up to her neck in the Just earth
and the Just people just gathered just passed just wandered up to
just have a look and just picked up a Just rock and
just threw it and it just hit this woman that they only just met
and just murdered her who had
merely
talked or walked laughed or cooked written read or worked next with to by a mere man who was not her husband and and and
listen listen l is t e n
to the Just prayers for her soul,
the Just decisions the Just snarls, the Just smiles of
The Just men who
just murdered, just stoned, just annhilated an innocent woman
for JUST being a woman
so just listen to the Just crowd the Just crack the Just snap the Just scream
the Just silence
JUST LISTEN then,
just stop just stop
and then, and only then will justice be done;
Patrick's poem "Mountains of Man" is being turned into a dance film by Striking Attitudes. An exciting collaboration between words, movement and music directed by Caroline Lamb supported by The Arts Council of Wales.
more info at www.strikingattitudes.com
Patrick is now working on his new cd of poetry and music. To be released late 2011.
“Striking enough to do for Welsh theatre what the
Manics and Stereophonics have done for its music”
The Guardian review of “Everything Must Go”
UPDATE;
Patrick's CD "tongues for a stammering time" is now only £5 with free p & p.
See it in the Shop Section.
Featuring Billy Bragg, Nicky Wire, James Dean Bradfield, Martyn Joseph, Steve Balsamo, Lethargy, Henry Priestman and many others.
PERFORMANCES
Patrick will be hitting the road this Autumn/Winter for a series of readings/ performances and workshops.
review from Anarchist Voices
Patrick Jones: Tongues For A Stammering Time
This CD was the complete opposite of what I expected. It doesn’t matter what I expected and it’s not to say that I was disappointed, just that I put the CD into the player perhaps thinking I was going to hear some solo singer-songwriter angst but I was surprised to say the least. Patrick Jones is a poet for those not in the know like me. And a playwright too. And his works are controversial, provocative, expressive and gritty but with a beauty that only someone so good at their craft can achieve. So, what does the CD sound like? Well, it’s not just ‘Spoken Word’. It’s subtle and it’s loud and it’s folky and there’s even some thrash metal in there so don’t expect me to pigeonhole it. The musical soundtracks and scores range from acoustic songs to experimental sounds that not only accompany but capture the brutality and destruction considered so thoughtfully within some of the harsh subject matter. I found some of the listening a challenge, not so much because of the style of music accompanying the poems but because of the unflinching nature of the writing. Violence against men, the war in Iraq and religious fundamentalism are just some of the subjects covered amongst some of the most personal poems that push the boundaries and challenge the listener whilst keeping the intimacy and personal views held to make the listener both think about what they have heard and afterwards contemplate their own humanity. With a musical score that has the likes of Martyn Joseph, Billy Bragg and a couple of the Manic Street Preachers involved, you know the music has not been added as an after-thought but carefully considered to contribute to the listeners experience of the poems. It was the less experimental scores that were music to my ears though and the likes of Amy Wadge adding flesh to the bones of Jones’ words to give a different interpretation to Jones’ Mankind. And a sampled voice of Thatcher on The Healing House before the unmistakable guitar sound of Billy Bragg creeps in to bring the song/poem to its conclusion again served as an example of how to add poetry to music, of how to make a CD of ‘spoken word’ interesting, innovative and exciting whilst losing nothing of the thoughts expressed. Me, I checked out www.patrick-jones.net and read some of the poems silently to myself. And I recommend you do that yourself if you are able. Then get the CD and hear Patrick Jones read them in his own accent.
Chris Butler
Patrick Jones Tongues For A Stammering Time is released on Anhrefn Records (Anhrefn 022)
Excellent words from
recordstore.co.uk
'Tongues For A Stammering Time' is a startling howl of outrage from Welsh musician and poet Patrick Jones. Featuring performances from James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Billy Bragg and many more luminaries, this is the perfect soundtrack for our troubled times."
www.recordstore.co.uk
The cd is now available from itunes, amazon, recordstore.co.uk and play.com
Full track listing;
1. moment of light - featuring les davies
2. the healing house - featuring billy bragg and beverley humphreys
3. mankind - featuring amy wadge
4. keys to your kingdom- featuring les davies
5. they- featuring greg haver and studio arcade
6. sapflow - featuring nicky wire
7. hymn
8. in absentia - featuring james dean bradfield
9. meat- featuring defiance of god and steve balsamo
10. the love of blood - featuring henry priestman
11. revelation- featuring james dean bradfield
12. the other- featuring martyn joseph
13. for i am in you you are in me and we are in us - featuring les davies
14. when we become mountains- featuring defiance of god and steve balsamo
15. white feather fallopian - featuring new state radio
16. the memory of steel - featuring julian gardner
17. valleys comprehensive - featuring dean meyrick and perigo minas
18. treelunged - featuring lethargy
19. the bells of rhymney 2007 - featuring ian devine
20. dysunitednation - featuring les davies and dean meyrick
21. 11/11/11 - featuring james dean bradfield
22.carelines - featuring jeb loy nichols
23.dandelion
24.me,we - featuring stacey blythe
Welcome to the official webpages of writer Patrick Jones. Here you will find details of current projects, past works and contact information.
Patrick is a poet, playwright, human rights activist and filmmaker. His work includes the poetry collections The Guerilla tapestry and Fuse, the CD of spoken word and music Commemoration and Amnesia and the plays Everything Must Go, Unprotected Sex, The War is Dead long live the war and Sing to Me. He has also directed short films and videos for the bands The Manic Street Preachers and Lethargy.
Patrick is also committed to taking words to the whole of the community and has developed writing groups for young people in Wales and beyond, developed and co-ordinated writing and drama workshops for people of all ages and from a mixed background, attended many different organisations from
community groups to universities to speak about writing and give readings of work. Set-up various writing projects for people with specific needs, for example hospice patients, school non-attendees, mental health patients and most recently the young homeless.He has worked with various communty based projects with NCH, The Welsh National Opera, St. David’s Foundation Hospice Care and The Dyn Project ( advocacy for men who have
experienced domestic violence) and The Prison Service.
He is always looking to further and develop his work so please feel free to use the "contact us" section to get in touch with Patrick about any aspect of his work or future collaborations.He is involved in this site and will visit it regularly.
Thank you.