Description: Nerval is one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. His great sonnet cycle, Les Chimères, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate writers, readers, and translators.
Brief description: Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008. A second collection Drawing in Ash appeared from Salt in May 2011. Shearsman Books republished these in 2015 and then published a third collection, The Sleepwalkers, in 2016. Menard Press published Will's first translation of Les Chimères in 1999. Arc Publications published To the Silenced - Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (2005) and Emile Verhaeren's Poems (2013). Georges Rodenbach's Poems appears in 2017, and Seagull Books will publish his Collected Poems of Georg Trakl in 2018.