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OverviewThis is the winner of Glen Dimplex Poetry Award 2008. 'Sometimes you read collections that in their ambition and concerns alert the mind to the possibility of obtaining a new perspective on what else is being written all around us and this book is such a collection...' These words written by the poet Paul Stubbs, announce to an English readership the power, originality and rare visionary elements to be found in this remarkable debut collection from a gifted poet. The poems gathered here under the title 'Glaciation', a poem itself inspired by Shelley's masterful distillation of alpine scenery in 'Mont Blanc', are concerned with a world precariously close to extinction. Stone sets out with only language to meet this catastrophe and from the daunting inescapable truths faced by modern man, suggests a potential existential transcendence via poetic metaphor and striking physical imagery. This poet is also concerned with the nature of melancholy, a 'creative' un-nihilistic melancholy handed down to Stone from other writers and artists with whom he shares a fraternal empathy. These support ghosts who seem to continue more fervently through death their heroic struggles with the rational goliath, make their entrances and exits throughout the collection, interspersed with poems culled from the coastal ledges of England, notably the wild and unspoilt stretch of coast between Hartland Point and Bude in North Devon, 'The Wreckers Coast', one of the last havens which for Stone are clinging on (just) in the face of an ever accelerating sterile and tyrannically functional modernity. By contrast Stone also draws on his native Suffolk and particularly the lonely coast of shingle spits and heather clad cliffs of mysterious enclaves such as Dunwich and Covehithe, made more visible in recent times by the writings of W.G. Sebald, but also long a sanctuary for earlier solitaries such as Edward Thomas and Fitzgerald. 'Greyfriars' and 'In Boulge Churchyard' for example evoke a tender, mournfully nostalgic Suffolk landscape that is shy to show itself and garners its essence before signalling to the right receiver. In a poetry world which seems to eschew risk and ever trumpets the easily accessible, these distinctive poems are then as Paul Stubbs rightly asserts 'as authentic as they are necessary'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Will StonePublisher: Salt Publishing Imprint: Salt Publishing Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.113kg ISBN: 9781844715473ISBN 10: 1844715477 Pages: 80 Publication Date: 05 June 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe Oaks Restoration Winter Light The Heart Van Gogh's Room Pigs Swifts Storm off Speke's Mill Mouth Morwenstowe Trakl - The Oval Photo The Commander Russian Fair Play Glaciation Verhaeren in Rouen The Ceremony Exhibit 'B' To Max The Wrecker's Coast The Sniper's Victim Angelic Intervention Translators of Baudelaire Exploring Culture's Wreck The Ghosts of Tully Castle Schopenhauer's Reprieve Heym's Madness Grave Detail Reading of the Bourgeois Women Regeneration The Ipatiev House The Hawk The Buzzard Natural Phenomenon Garden and Leisure The Sinister Blue Lake Greyfriars The Jetty Hour of the old Buildings Sudden Flight Where the Waves End The Monk's Bell SS Fort Breendonk Frithelstock In Boulge Churchyard Explanation to an Academic Sorley At Hartland Point Stragglers Ducks and Geese Reeds in November The Deserter In St Sulpice Take Off Exodus Walser's Last Walk OctoberReviewsStone has a definite flair for the striking image and, taken one by one, his jarring visions of a profligate civilization trapped in a fatally debased environment are rawly compelling. -- Sarah Crown The Guardian Some say the world will end in fire / E ice / Is also great / And would suffice.' Will Stone too warns apocalyptically of ice E Frost is detached and wryly witty; Stone is hard, urgent and angry: expressions of righteous indignation are rarely attractive and we may not thank Stone immediately for lifting our blinkers, but Salt are to be congratulated for recognizing this important new voice. -- Simon Darragh The London Magazine The title poem elaborates with frightening savagery on Shelley's Mont Blanc , and throughout the volume it is clear that Stone has, as poets must, thoroughly absorbed poetic tradition in order to produce a new voice that, while it owes almost nothing to what has come before, is nonetheless entirely original. -- Simon Darragh The London Magazine Stone continually walks us back through the 'European' continent of his imagination as one walks through a half ruined nave, or bombed arcade. His own poetical form is exact, engaged, and accessible; but it is the author's exemplary eye for what interposes itself between subject and imagination that lifts these poems into another realm. -- Paul Stubbs The Wolf Magazine Will Stone has created a collection of poems here of oblique and uncomfortable beauty, in which he has managed to successfully capture the dislocation and bewilderment felt in the modern era confronted with the ever accelerating decline of the natural world. -- Paul Stubbs The Wolf Magazine At his best, Stone is a poet of place, but of place etherealised and clouded over by a relationship between landscape and emotion that is no less powerful for being tenuous. -- Patrick Macguinness Poetry Wales There is something resonantly downbeat about Stone's poetic vision, with poems that break out into sharp points of pain before settling back into the muffled suffering that is their bass note. -- Patrick Macguinness Poetry Wales Stone has a definite flair for the striking image and, taken one by one, his jarring visions of a profligate civilization trapped in a fatally debased environment are rawly compelling. -- Sarah Crown The Guardian Some say the world will end in fire / ... ice / Is also great / And would suffice.' Will Stone too warns apocalyptically of ice ... Frost is detached and wryly witty; Stone is hard, urgent and angry: expressions of righteous indignation are rarely attractive and we may not thank Stone immediately for lifting our blinkers, but Salt are to be congratulated for recognizing this important new voice. -- Simon Darragh The London Magazine The title poem elaborates with frightening savagery on Shelley's Mont Blanc , and throughout the volume it is clear that Stone has, as poets must, thoroughly absorbed poetic tradition in order to produce a new voice that, while it owes almost nothing to what has come before, is nonetheless entirely original. -- Simon Darragh The London Magazine Stone continually walks us back through the 'European' continent of his imagination as one walks through a half ruined nave, or bombed arcade. His own poetical form is exact, engaged, and accessible; but it is the author's exemplary eye for what interposes itself between subject and imagination that lifts these poems into another realm. -- Paul Stubbs The Wolf Magazine Will Stone has created a collection of poems here of oblique and uncomfortable beauty, in which he has managed to successfully capture the dislocation and bewilderment felt in the modern era confronted with the ever accelerating decline of the natural world. -- Paul Stubbs The Wolf Magazine At his best, Stone is a poet of place, but of place etherealised and clouded over by a relationship between landscape and emotion that is no less powerful for being tenuous. -- Patrick Macguinness Poetry Wales There is something resonantly downbeat about Stone's poetic vision, with poems that break out into sharp points of pain before settling back into the muffled suffering that is their bass note. -- Patrick Macguinness Poetry Wales Stone has a definite flair for the striking image and, taken one by one, his jarring visions of a profligate civilization trapped in a fatally debased environment are rawly compelling. -- Sarah Crown The Guardian Some say the world will end in fire / ! ice / Is also great / And would suffice.' Will Stone too warns apocalyptically of ice ! Frost is detached and wryly witty; Stone is hard, urgent and angry: expressions of righteous indignation are rarely attractive and we may not thank Stone immediately for lifting our blinkers, but Salt are to be congratulated for recognizing this important new voice. -- Simon Darragh The London Magazine The title poem elaborates with frightening savagery on Shelley's Mont Blanc , and throughout the volume it is clear that Stone has, as poets must, thoroughly absorbed poetic tradition in order to produce a new voice that, while it owes almost nothing to what has come before, is nonetheless entirely original. -- Simon Darragh The London Magazine Stone continually walks us back through the 'European' continent of his imagination as one walks through a half ruined nave, or bombed arcade. His own poetical form is exact, engaged, and accessible; but it is the author's exemplary eye for what interposes itself between subject and imagination that lifts these poems into another realm. -- Paul Stubbs The Wolf Magazine Will Stone has created a collection of poems here of oblique and uncomfortable beauty, in which he has managed to successfully capture the dislocation and bewilderment felt in the modern era confronted with the ever accelerating decline of the natural world. -- Paul Stubbs The Wolf Magazine At his best, Stone is a poet of place, but of place etherealised and clouded over by a relationship between landscape and emotion that is no less powerful for being tenuous. -- Patrick Macguinness Poetry Wales There is something resonantly downbeat about Stone's poetic vision, with poems that break out into sharp points of pain before settling back into the muffled suffering that is their bass note. -- Patrick Macguinness Poetry Wales Author InformationWill Stone, born 1966, is a poet, and literary translator who divides his time between England and Belgium. His first poetry collection Glaciation, (Salt, 2007) won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008. His published translations include To The Silenced - selected poems of Georg Trakl (Arc Publications, 2005) and a collection of travel essays Journeys - Stefan Zweig (Hesperus Press, 2010) Two 'Selected Poems' of Belgian symbolist poets Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach will be published by Arc in spring 2011. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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