JONATHAN STONE
From Imagining to Managing

 What’s new becomes old so quickly! 

I find writing tends to be fragments at first. It all seems disconnected but the fragments have habit of linking up.

I am currently writing my biography, poems, and fragments on anger politics accepting and caring, my childhood, my parents, performance, on politics, disability, movement and spirituality. partly illuminating partly self indulgent !, currently ( March 25) it's about 92,000 words!

 

Recent writings include:

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A rehearsed reading of part of my  novel, OPIL LORBIN AND THE SOUND VIRUS at St. Pancras Clock Tower.

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n July 2023, at the kind invitation of CJ Mitchell and Karen Christopher,  I was in week-long residency at South House, Faversham during which I  wrote music and expanded writing about music and practice.

 

I have been continuing writing  and expanding my novels into a virus trilogy -

1. Opil Lorbin and the Sound Virus is the first part,

2. The Return of the Tarantate, story that I wrote many years ago set in Southern Italy.

3. third part is about a strange new virus, that infects consciousness, disrupting then paralysing the world.

 

From January to June 2021 I had a Writing and Imagining Studio, TWANG, on South Bank. This resulted in London Walks, a project in  text and images about my walk from home to studio.

During winter 21-22, I was writing a series of blogs about wellbeing for an Indian website.

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n 2024, in collaboration with bookseller Justin Croft, I wrote and researched a catalogue on the English art critic and writer, John Ruskin. This catalogue is now in the Met Museum in New York.

 In between I have been writing various fragments ..

 

 

Below are  a few bits of older  writing ...