The processes of time

Stones is a single poem of around 200 lines, decorated with a wood engraving by Paul Kershaw.  It is set in the Lake District where the author was living when he began work on the poem.  It took over a decade to write and it is this element of time, and its contribution to our wellbeing, that occupies the poem: after trauma, how can we live well in the present without denigrating the past?  Must we retain our connection to former experience, whatever the personal cost, in order to understand the present? 

The first printing sold out quickly, and because Matthew read it for a BBC radio poetry programme, a new edition was called for.  Printed with Bembo type on Zerkall paper, this second printing is of numbered copies in a smaller chapbook format compared to the first edition, £18 including UK postage.

Matthew Hollis is the author of Now All Roads Lead To France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas and The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, as well as two collections of poems, Ground Water and Earth House.