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Will Stone (b. 1966) is an English poet, essayist, translator from German and French and critic. He was born in Epping, Essex in 1966 and now lives in Suffolk, regularly dividing his time between the UK and research trips to Europe, specifically Belgium and France where he has held a number of writing and translating residencies at places such as Seneffe and Antwerp, Belgium and Arles, France. He has also held a number of Hawthornden Fellowships in the UK.

Stone initially studied European Marketing and European Studies at the universities of Lyons and Hull respectively, before earning a B.ED in French from the University of Bristol in 1993. A period of two years followed in Paris (1993-1995) during which time Stone immersed himself in French poetry and life while supporting himself through a succession of jobs as a bookseller, translator and teacher of English as a foreign language.

Upon his return from Paris, Stone enrolled on the MA course in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, which put him into contact with the expatriate German writer W. G. Sebald who took a few seminars and lectures and who Stone got to know when Stone returned at a translator in residence for the British Centre of Literary Translation at the university in 2001, shortly before Sebald’s early death. Stone’s first published translations into English were of the poems of French poet Gérard de Nerval in 1999 from the Menard Press. There followed translations in poetry and prose from a range of Austrian, German, Belgian and French writers such as Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, August Stramm, Emile Verhaeren, Georges Rodenbach, Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth.

Although Stone had, by the mid-2000s, already published a number of pamphlet selections of his own work, his own poetry debut came in 2007 when Salt Publishing brought out Glaciation which won the Glen Dimplex Prize in 2008. There followed, in 2011, Drawing in Ash, also from Salt. Stone’s third and most recent collection The Sleepwalkers was published in 2016 by Shearsman Books who has also reprinted Stone’s previous two collections in 2015.

Stone continues to review for The Times Literary Supplement as well as contribute articles and art criticism to RA Magazine, Apollo and The London Magazine. He also continues to publish poems, translations, and reviews in Modern Poetry in Translation, Agenda, Poetry Review, PN Review and Magma.

Published Works

Poetry

The Sleepwalkers Shearsman Books (April 2016)

Drawing in Ash Salt Publishing (May 2011) *Republished in new edition by Shearsman (2015)

Glaciation Salt Publishing (December 2007) *Republished in new edition by Shearsman (2015)

The Late Time Taw Press, (September 2006)

Shadow Symposium Ambros Press, (October 2001)

Darker Earlier Prozac press, (July 1997)

Poetry Translations

George Rodenbach – Poems Translated by Will Stone Arc Publications (March 2017) Emile Verhaeren – Poems Translated by Will Stone Arc Publications (December 2013)

August Stramm - Tropfblut Translated by Will Stone and Anthony Vivis Taw Press, (May 2007)

Gerog Trakl - To the Silenced – Selected Poems Translated by Will stone Arc Publications (December 2005)

Gérard de Nerval Les Chimères Translated by Will Stone Menard Press (December 1999)

Prose Translations

Friedrich Hölderlin’s Life Poetry and Madness by Wilhelm Waiblinger Hesperus Press (May 2018)

Stefan Zweig - Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink Pushkin Press (January 2016)

Stefan Zweig - Montaigne Pushkin Press (August 2016)

Joseph Roth - On the End of the World Hesperus Press (June 2013)

Stefan Zweig - Nietzsche Hesperus Press (April 2013)

Maurice Betz - Rilke in Paris Notes On the Melody of Things - Rainer Maria Rilke Hesperus Press (May 2012)

Stefan Zweig - Journeys Hesperus Press (May 2010)

Georges Rodenbach - Bruges-la-Morte Dedalus Ltd (May 2005)