Will Stone Bücher

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.

WINNER GLEN DIMPLEX POETRY AWARD 2008. Will Stone was recently named a 'European-leaning maverick' by Hugo Williams in the TLS, which may explain why his remarkable voice has been unjustly neglected until now. Stone's poems have a visionary edge to them, replete as they are with a powerful imagery both sublime and unsettling. Suffused with melancholy and a sometimes apocalyptic morbidity, his poetry is also lyrically tender and elegiac, focusing on both the trauma of mankind pinioned by an ever increasing existential insecurity in a debased natural world and the consolation of revealing a poetic 'spiritual' essence still active in certain landscapes.

Stone's new translation of some of Georg Trakl's finest work--complete with introductory essays and commentary--is a volume which promises to rekindle interest in the work of this seminal Austrian poet.