Gilmore, Ruth Ester
Inking the Stones –
The Best Poetry Book
for Students
about Writing for Peace
Geest-Verlag 2024

ISBN 978-86685-527-4

192 S., 12 Euro

A twist of fate finds a local architect dogged by war. Heavily preoccupied with the planning and the building of her new school building, she works with children and teenagers in changing their town’s environment.

While she shares her architect’s cabin with war refugees, she also continues to care for her father-in-law, who is dying from cancer.

The situation changes one morning. She is horrified to find enemy troops heading for her town. Can this disaster be stopped?

Only a peace treaty can save her and the people she works with. Can she achieve this unreachable goal? Will she find the strength to form the inked stones into simple words of peace, thereby proving that the pen is stronger than the sword?

 
This wonderful story of a courageous woman is written in the form of one long enduring poem.

Ruth Esther Gilmore
is the author of six poetry books
including
“Saving Nature”,
“This is the Year of Hope and Peace – Haiku, Senryū,
and other poetry forms”,
“Nature is calling for Peace – the Best Haiku and Senryū Collection for
Students”,
and “Engaging Worlds”.
Her literature has been nominated
for countless book awards including
The Griffin Poetry Prize
as well as
The Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards
and The Touchstone Distinguished Books Prize.

Her work has been published in anthologies as well as in the
Poetry Ireland Review, the Ledbury Poetry Festival pages,
Brittle Star, Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal,
Wales Haiku Journal, Drifting Sands, Frogpond,
and the Haiku Canada Review.


Ruth Esther Gilmore is an international author and a city planner.