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Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007) won the International Glen Dimplex Award award for Poetry (Dublin, Ireland) in 2008. Subsequent collections Drawing in Ash (Salt, 2011), The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman 2016) and The Slowing Ride (Shearsman 2020) have been critically appraised. A fifth collection Immortal Wreckage was published by Shearsman in July 2024. Will’s published translations from French and German include works by Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gérard de Nerval, Georg Simmel, Maurice Betz, Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach. Will’s latest published translations were Nietzsche in Italy by Guy de Pourtalès (Pushkin Press, 2022) and Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach (Wakefield Press, 2022). Letters around a Garden, a collection of Rilke’s letters in French was published in May 2024 and Conversations with Rilke by Maurice Betz was published by Pushkin in January 2025. Will has contributed reviews, essays, poems and translations to a number of literary and art publications including the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine, the Spectator, Apollo Magazine, the RA Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, White Review, Irish Pages, PN Review and Poetry Review.
Martyn Crucefix: a chapbook, Walking Away, is due from Dare-Gale Press, late 2025. Other publications: Between a Drowning Man (Salt, 2023); Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019); a Rilke selected poems, Change Your Life (Pushkin Press, 2024). These Numbered Days, translations of Peter Huchel (Shearsman) won the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, 2020; a new translation of Jurgen Becker’s 1993 collection, Foxtrot at the Erfurt Stadium due from Shearsman, 2026. Blog/website: http://www.martyncrucefix.com
Stephen Watts's most recent books include 'Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds' (Prototype, 2nd edition 2020) & 'Journeys Across Breath : Poems 1975-2005' (Prototype 2022). In 2021 Peer Gallery published his edition of 'Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds : Poems From 94 Languages Spoken Across Hackney'. His 'Selected Poems' in Spanish translation was published in Bogota in May 2025 & 'A Book Of Drawn Poems' will be published by Joe Hales's Sylvia imprint in September 2025. Huw Wahl made a 70 minute 16ml b/w film of 'The Republics' in 2019 which has been shown at many art film festivals internationally. Stephen has read at Torriano often in the past & Hearing Eye published two long sequences of his poetry with Italian translation by Cristina Viti in 2008 & 2011
