Böcker av Jon Stone

In recent years, poetry and video games have begun talking to ¿ and taking from ¿ one another in earnest. Poets, ever in pursuit of meaning, now draw inspiration from digital-interactive fantasy worlds, while video game developers aim to enrich their creations by imbuing them with poetic depth. This book investigates the phenomena of poem-game hybrids and other forms of poetic-ludic interplay, making use of both a multidisciplinary critical approach and the author¿s own experiments in building and testing hybrid artefacts. What emerges is the suggestion of a future where reading and playing are no longer seen as separate endeavours, where the quests for sensory pleasure and philosophic insight are one and the same.

A pamphlet of poems about a land overcome by sand.

Jon Stone's Unravelanche is made up of 'snowstorm poems', swirling collages of fragmented text taken from a rich range of literary sources, from well-known rebellious figures such as D. H. Lawrence and Kurt Vonnegut to harder to find references, taking in comic books, films, and philosophical works. The poems are beautiful, like libraries trapped in ice, their words 'retain a powerful attraction to one another, forming sentences as they settle on the ground.'