Lives Beyond Us is the first big Sidekick Books anthology/treasury without my name on the cover. The editors this time around are my Sidekick teammate Kirsty, who curated and edited the poems, and PhD film scholar Sebastian Manley, who commissioned and edited essays for the book.I do, however, have an essay published in it. An essay […]
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The Best British Poetry 2014
Got some major catching up to do here. It’s a good job I don’t have any competitors in the ‘news on Jon Stone’s recent publications’ stakes.A short poem of mine, ‘Endings to Adventure Gamebooks 17’, appears in The Best British Poetry 2014, edited by Mark Ford and published by Salt. My name also appears on the […]
Robert Burns Anglicised Megamix Mash
Composed for the Beer Boutique’s Burns Night Rampage. Drink a finger for every reference to boozing. Here’s a bottle and an honest friend! The devil’s away and the devil’s away. Oh, nought but love and sorry joined. The devil’s away and the devil’s away. Here brewer Gabriel’s fire’s extinct. The devil’s away and […]
B O D Y Literature
I posted a retrospective on my previous appearance in B O D Y back in April. April! Really? That’s half a year ago! Those poems were translations. But this time the editors have published an entirely original (as far as anything I write is entirely original) poem of my own, entitled The One and the […]
Revision Diary #1: ‘Seasonal Cartoon’
‘Seasonal Cartoon’ is a draft poem I wrote, I think, about two years ago, originally with linebreaks. These were removed in order to make it a narrow, column-like paragraph, a shape it now seems to have lost through being copied between various documents. The title has also been revised a few times. Here’s the version […]
The Harlequin, Issue 4
Five poems of mine are published online in the latest issue of The Harlequin. Here’s the optional commentary track: Ash is the third of four ‘between-element’ poems to be published. The first two were Dust in The New Statesman and Steam in The White Review. Ash is the element between fire and air, and like […]