Drawing in Ash

Drawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone's second collection. These compelling poems tackle subjects from war and genocide to the Roman ruins of Provence. Stone leads us on a visionary exploration of mankind's fragility and destructive power, through unpalatable historical realities which our current society, despite its vast intellectual inheritance, still straggles to assimilate. This is a world where ancient ruins emerge from the earth like the stubborn backbones of some pre-historic creature, exuding peculiar poetic significance for us today.

These poems come from a real existential engagement and follow the old dictum that a poet must respond to his time, how things are now, whilst not letting history off the hook.