Brown, Duncan2026-05-132026-05-132025Brown, D., 2025. In Praise of Stone. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37(1), pp.6-16.https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2464332https://hdl.handle.net/10566/22404This open-form essay reflects on issues of poetics, politics, and ethics by analysing a series of texts that use images of stone. Authors of the texts include W B Yeats, Nelson Mandela, T S Eliot, Solomon, Seamus Heaney, William Plomer, Douglas Livingstone, W H Auden, the apostles John and Simon Peter, and Jesus.enEthicsImageryPoeticsPoliticsStoneArticle