Books by Will Stone

Will Stone reclaims here his role of cerebral journeyman: an inveterate trawler of history, moving between epochs and events, between personalities, cultures and landscapes, leaving behind delicate silken threads of suggestion, salvaging what remains of the humanistic in delineating the replicating tragedies and punishments endured by the fallen.

A new collection from award-winning poet Will Stone, whose poems have been described as haunting, beautiful, savage, lyric and visionary, inventive, searing yet poignant, mesmerising and original.

Will Stone was named a 'European-leaning maverick' by Hugo Williams in the TLS, which may explain why his remarkable voice was unjustly neglected until this volume first appeared. Stone's poems have a visionary edge to them, replete as they are with a powerful imagery both sublime and unsettling.

These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the Roman ruins of Provence - historic realities which are unpalatable and to which our current society, despite the indulgence of drawing on a vast intellectual and historical warehouse, is unable to properly determine or clarify.