Honorary President: Professor William Blissett
Following the success of several symposia held in 1995 to celebrate the Centenary of David Jones (1895-1974), the David Jones Society was reinstated in 1996.

The Society aims to promote and encourage knowledge of the painter-poet, David Jones, and his holistic vision of the world. Having trained as a painter, he continued to paint throughout his life, producing such masterpieces as 'Manawyddan's Glass Door'(1932) and 'Flora in Calyx-Light'(1950). He also created some powerful wood and metal engravings, notably those for Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Perhaps his unique contribution to twentieth century visual art was his 'painted inscriptions', where word and image combine in harmonious abstract patterns, which he made in his later years.

In 1928 he decided to try 'to make a shape in words', rather than with images, and he commenced his first long poem In Parenthesis (1937). Hailed as 'a work of genius' by T.S. Eliot, this epic was based on Jones's experiences as a foot soldier in World War I. In 1952, he published his second long poem, which he illustrated using a variety of techniques, with its enigmatic title: The Anathemata. W.H. Auden claimed that it was 'probably the finest long poem written in English this century'. The Sleeping Lord (1974) is perhaps Jones's most accessible collection of poetry, while The Roman Quarry, a searching work about Romano-Celtic civilisation and the emergence of Christianity, appeared posthumously in 1981.

In his essays Jones articulated many pertinent views concerning religion, the arts, the condition and matter of the history of the Western world, and twentieth century civilisation.

Annually, The David Jones Society hosts scholarly meetings on David Jones. Swansea was the venue for the first seminar in 1997. In September 1998, the International Conference took place at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Over 100 delegates attended the 3-day event to discuss the theme of Mythology. Poets and Poetry was the subject of the 1999 Seminar in Bangor, while in July members spent a long week-end in the Somme region where Jones was wounded in the Great War. In Oxford, 2000, the topics of David Jones: Salutary poet-painter, and also The Book of Balaam's Ass were the themes addressed in two respective seminars. Walks around David Jones's old haunts, including Rotherhithe, Capel-y-ffin and Harrow, as well as visits to galleries with holdings of his works, are also on the David Jones itinerary.