Patrick Jones
| Patrick Jones | |
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| Born | 1965 Tredegar, Gwent, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Poet, Playwright, Filmmaker, Intellectual |
| Period | 1986 – present |
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Patrick Jones (born 1965) is a Welsh poet, playwright and senior sibling of Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers.
Born in Tredegar in 1965, Patrick Jones was educated at Oakdale Comprehensive, Crosskeys College (a campus of Coleg Gwent), and then at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1983-1987. He was awarded Bsc. (Hons) in Sociology and American Studies. Jones has been employed in youth work, nursing aid, as a Literacy Officer and a Lecturer. He has lived much of his life in Blackwood but has also lived in Herne Bay, Swansea, in Germany, and spent four years in Chicago, Illinois.
Jones set up the Blackwood Young Writers Group based at the Blackwood Miners Institute in 1993. He taught Adult Literacy at Blackwood Community College and the Ebbw Vale Institute. Jones is also active in setting up various reading and writing workshops throughout Wales from schools to youth centres. He has also served as the Creative Literacy Worker for the Cynon Project and in 1988 was writer in residence at Swansea College. He has worked in collaboration with Hafan Cymru, Ty Hapus, Literature Wales and The Welsh National Opera.
Jones has made various television and radio appearances, and is probably Wales' most prominent literary figure. He participated in a week-long intensive writing masterclass with Arnold Wesker at Hay on Wye Literature Festival in 1997. Jones participated in the 1998 Dysfluency Tour. In April 1999, he staged a Kosovo benefit at Blackwood Miner's Institute involving Max Boyce, James Dean Bradfield and other artists. Later that year he read from and discussed sections of his play Everything Must Go at Marxism '99. 1999 also saw Ioan Gruffydd, Matthew Rhys and other Welsh Hollywood celebrities performing his poem "The Guerrilla Tapestry" at the opening of the Welsh Assembly 'Voices Of A Nation' concert. In 2004, he returned to the Hay Festival for a discussion with James Dean Bradfield on music, politics and writing.
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