Thomas Vaughan Jones Biography

Thomas Vaughan Jones was born in Liverpool, is indisputably Celtic and has those characteristics which include a deep sense of melancholy (hiraeth) for the land of his fathers, and a sense of humour which prevents him writing anything even remotely serious. Unless of course, he is discussing Love or Death, which is an entirely different matter.
Tom began his adult career as a professional soldier in the British Army on the Rhine, where he became a regimental signal instructor and fell in love with countless Aryan maidens. After a fairly short military career, it was a logical step to become a Firefighter, where in the course of thirty years he rose to the rank of Supervisory Divisional Officer. At the same time he assisted his late lamented wife, Sheilagh, in raising five children.
On retiring, he pursued his love for formal poetry and attended Liverpool and Knowsley Universities before being elected Chairperson of Knowsley Writers. Here he supervised the production of a quarterly magazine, The Roundabout and established Open Forum for other would be writers.He went on to found The Pen People and served Halewood Arts Association for many years.
His poetry has been published in many magazines, including The Big Roundup, and he wrote a play For BBC North, as well as a musical history for Halewood Performing Arts.
Tom has a multitude of kissing cousins in U.S.A, Canada and Australia, and enjoyed a great relationship as a moderator on the internet with The Critical Poet. These relationships have allowed him to develop the characters which he uses to write a varied genre of formal poetry.

Favorite Quote or Motto: ”There is nothing new in a poem: The same words, the same meanings, yet a poem becomes new due to the skill in making it.” – Abu hilal-al Askari.11th centrury.