Jon Stone

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Jon is a Derbyshire-born writer, editor and researcher who specialises in amalgams: hybrids, mixtures, collections and crossovers, of poem and game, fantasy and realism, curation and composition.

Many of the books he publishes are multi-author anthologies, co-conceived and edited with Kirsten Irving, designed to bridge the gap between poetry and other genres, including writing on games and film, nature guides, activity books and comics.

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2012, the Poetry London prize in 2014 and 2016 and the Live Canon International Poetry Prize in 2018. His research on poem-game hybrids was published as a monograph, 'Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames', in 2022.
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"I goon-march and glide", Part 3

With the new university semester and two new Sidekick Books titles imminent now well-and-truly arrived, it’s time for a significant update to Stray Bulletin, recounting key happenings from the year so far. This is the last of three parts, released substantially later than the first two!

Part 1: Events! | Part 2: Reviews & Critical Writing! | Part 3: New Work!

I write a lot. I just don’t

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“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept from its unacceptable conscious expression by the production of a physical symptom – so-called primary gain. Freud was the first to admit that this process of conversion was not always complete.”
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