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This volume, featuring essays by a number of poets and critics, is the first survey of Peter Hughes' poetry, and is published simultaneously with his Selected Poems. The book features contributions...

This volume contains the remarkable PhD thesis submitted by Crozier in 1972, and for which his external examiner was J.H. Prynne-whose comments on the thesis are also included here, as an afterword...

This book offers a critical overview of the work of the British poet Kelvin Corcoran who, over nearly 30 years, has established a reputation as one of the most significant innovative British lyric...

(Sur)renderingAuthor: MARIO. MARTIN GIJONPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: January 24, 2020Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617046ISBN-13:...

Simon Smith's fifth collection contains two long sequences: the title work, and Gravesend, which garnered the following commentary: 'The Waste Land may have been smoothed to automatic for the iPad,...

Throughout his adult life, C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) rarely journeyed outside his native Alexandria, although he spent some of his childhood years in Liver-pool and London. In the course of the 20th...

The earliest poem in this book ('The Sleeper's Blue Shirt') is from 1972. The most recent poems are from 2022. Ken Bolton edited this selection, drawing from five books and one chapbook. "John Levy...

After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves on to this collection of poetry crystallising out of extended stays in Cambridge and Berlin. Of...

In the Postface to his 114 Songs of 1922, Charles Ives wrote: "Some of the songs in this book, particularly among the latter ones, cannot be sung, and if they could, perhaps might prefer, if they had...

It is not a book of poems. It is not a long poem. It is not a novel. Nor a volume of short stories. It is not a work of philosophy. It is not an object - like a stone. Yet it drops into the well of...

A Confusion of MarysAuthor: Rupert M LoydellPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: January 24, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616961ISBN-13:...

Author: Martin AndersonPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jan 14, 2022Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 184861795XISBN-13: 9781848617957

This is a landscape well-known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk-Essex border with her dog Fin urging her on, as she steps lightly into a calendar year of a...

These are poems which are ostensibly about pirates yet the subtext has a satirical impulse which is fuelled by surrealism and a delight in upending the apple cart. The author revels in entertaining...

A Deafening Silence is the first UK publication by one of Romania's leading contemporary poets. Selecting from over twenty years' output, this bilingual volume offers an ideal introduction to her...

Author: Tim AllenPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Nov 05, 2021Number of Pages: 110 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617887ISBN-13: 9781848617889

Three poems by Mayakovsky, O'Hara and Ken Kiff's close friend Martha Kapos shed light on the way Kiff, like Paul Klee before him, took a line for a walk, and then another line, and then yet another...

A Manner of Utterance offers a collection of responses to J.H. Prynne's poetry by his readers: not merely academics, but poets, composers, teachers and a painter (Ian Friend, one of whose works is...

In 2012, Yang Lian and others started an online poetry competition in China. They expected a good response, but were astounded to receive more than 85,000 entries, with unknown poets-earning their...

In these poems, the reader carries her "lone heartbeat" while sifting through the confusion of a psychically, physically rubbled world. There is loss, transcribed literally as spaces in the poems,...

A Neon Tryst is a collection of ekphrastic poems featuring the films L'Eclisse (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni); Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer); and Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman). Though...

Author: Aidan FinePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Dec 04, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617364ISBN-13: 9781848617360

Poetry. "Observant, musical, coheres to nature; it's been a pleasure to read Jospeh Massey for some years now. A poetry pared down to the essential inside the world where language interacts with...

The dramatic title sequence takes the form of an imaginary journey to the Inca empire, seen through the eyes of the first and last of the Inca emperors and of two great half-Inca writers, both...

Claire Crowther's fifth collection, A Pair of Three, is her most personal yet, a story of marriage to a widower. It explores a trio, wife, husband and first wife, in a love story that is moving,...

The figures we have tell that the number of new books of poetry published each year nearly doubled between 1976 and 1993 and then nearly doubled again by 2000, then staying at this level. In the...

Are you English?' is never a neutral question. In the 11th century a 'Presentment of Englishry' was the offering of proof that a dead man was English and therefore unimportant. In the 12th century...

Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry-though, like the sports headlines he writes for the News of the World, his verse is grounded in word-play and...

Author: Mtc CroninPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Aug 27, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 184861750XISBN-13: 9781848617506

Robert Sheppard has given this book over to his own invention, the fictional Belgian poet Ren? Van Valckenborch. Apparently writing in both Flemish and Walloon, and translated and edited by entities...