This book will be released in September 2026.
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Shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award 2026
‘Patrick Jones’ poems show us the power of a heart clawed open, bloody with anger, despair, grief and love.’ – Jude Rogers
‘Patrick’s poems have the power to shake us from the numbness imposed by a media landscape saturated with distraction and indifference. They unmask hypocrisy and violence, and reclaim our humanity that this capitalist economy – with its imperial and genocidal implications – works relentlessly to suppress.’ – Clara Mattei
Poems of grief, loss, healing, awe, resilience, hope and transformation.
After visiting the Occupied West Bank in 2023, Patrick Jones felt helpless. Useless. A voyeur. Could poetry make a difference? The brave, beautiful, resilient people he met asked him to go back and tell their stories. So, that’s what he did. Antidotes to Dissolution’s opening section offers glimpses of his first-hand experience of the people and the place and documents the genocide in Gaza livestreamed into our homes since October 2023. ‘The Heart is a Security Risk’ is a love letter to Palestine; a small act of resistance, of solidarity with the Palestinian people who have been subjected to so much death, destruction, pain and oppression.
After a very difficult few years of loss, grief, toxic relationships, major surgery and world desolation, every day Patrick is grateful if words arrive and grateful for those who read them. In part two, ‘Hold This Dust’, he addresses our wellbeing and environment, asking how we can live in a world that allows such huge atrocities to happen? And how can we be kind to each other... and to ourselves? Using poetry as a tool for navigating the sometimes crushing world we are living in, Patrick explores sea swimming, breathwork, meditation, yoga, walking and gratitude practices in his own psychological journey through loss and grief to survival /thrival.
