Glaciation

Winner Glen Dimplex Poetry Award 2008

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.