After a gap in publishing of more than 20 years, recent poems have appeared in UK and NZ literary magazines, with a selection published by Auckland University Press in AUP New Poets Four, 2011: ‘This excellent poet – a kind of Ted Hughes crossed with Bukowski’ Gwilym Williams, Pulsar Poetry ‘Harold Jones’s poems are like the world he writes about – unadorned, comfortless and strictly for the grown-ups’ Al Alvarez