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Tony Guest is welcome wherever he goes-a motorcycle courier on a big bike, picking up and dropping all manner of urgent parcels, letters, and duly getting his dockets signed. In July he rides in a...

Poetry. The title of LOOMS signifies the weaving tool as well as the shadowing appearance of something. These woven tales were inspired by Barbara Guest's statement that a tale doesn't tell the truth...

Lyrical verve, wit and tenderness are signature qualities of Kenny Knight's work. He writes here about lived experience, and the artistry is absorbed in the exchanges of human voices and graced with...

Heloise and Abelard - Since the 12th century writers, artists, and musicians have been inspired by the details of their story-famous philosopher and his pupil, forbidden love affair, abandoned son,...

"Diagrams are meant to be clear and precise, serious and informative. David Greenslade shows them to be none of those. In his eyes they become murky and ambiguous, playful and misleading, harbouring...

In 2000 in Galicia, in a maelstrom of rupture from her previous poetics, well-known poet Chus Pato gave readers a startling new book that instantly demarcated the literary landscape. This book was a...

Steve Spence's new collection of poetry, Maelstrom Origami - his second from Shearsman books, is a continuation of the mapping of contemporary cultural and political topics through the medium of...

"These miraculous poems of everyday matter magnified by forty reveal our world in all its pristine glory - reminiscent of Pablo Neruda's household odes, but stranger. Her sketches of waterfalls are...

A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges. These poems craft narratives of long forgotten migrations, shipwrecks, and the...

With a sparse, haunting, often playful lyricism, the makers of empty dreams emerge like figures in the reels of an old, almost abandoned film. Their stories, often set in different countries which we...

Maldon is a version of the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment, The Battle of Maldon, which tells the tale of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading Vikings which took place ca. 991 AD on the...

ManifestosAuthor: Vicente HuidobroPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jan 24, 2020Number of Pages: 167 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616953ISBN-13: 9781848616950

Manners of an Astronaut was Gig Ryan's second collection, in 1984, and confirmed the impression she had made with her first book. It has been unavailable for some time although parts have reappeared...

Manual, the sixth volume in the ongoing series of Richard Berengarten's Selected Writings, is an ambitious work-in-progress, a single poem, whose central theme is human hands.Author: Richard...

"The first interview here with Allen Fisher dates from 1973. I took the decision to collect old interviews rather than make an all-new book. I am fascinated by the idea of a very long base line,...

In her second collection of poems Kate Ashton examines woman's estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity. Born into her biological destiny, woman is harnessed at...

The poems in Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way arise amidst those remnants, historical and everyday, that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek...

A rottenness at the heart of things, mapped onto England - London and other cities, the Midlands - and various narratives, manifests via apocalyptic omens and curses, and things being upside-down; an...

A musical phrase, a dream image, the absence of a lover, fragments of conversation with friends, an atrocity, the fragility and infinite mutability of words . . . each of the 71 poems in this...

Message ("Mensagem") was the only book of verse in his own language that Pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. On the face of it, a patriotic sequence steeped in 'Sebastianismo', the poems...

Mexico is one of the major centres of Hispanic poetry-something which is perhaps more visible from the USA than from Britain, but nonetheless something that needs to be realised by anyone who cares...

Mid Life is subtitled 'Poetry 1980-2000', and is a revised and reconsidered Collected Poems covering the period 1980-1994 in terms of composition, and several further years of revision. The contents...

"So walk. Listen to the roaring of ponds. In this new collection poet Carol Watts records the seasonal arrival and disappearance of a pond, which sits on ancient ground famous for rebellions and...

Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns...

This volume brings together a number of hard-to-find reviews, essays, memoirs and journal pieces by Gael Turnbull, a central figure in the interaction between American and British poetry in the...

Author: Paul VangelistiPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Sep 18, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617151ISBN-13: 9781848617155

Erica Lewis's 'murmur in the inventory' diagrams "a dislocated cloud." It immerses the reader in residues, resonances, and echoes. A roving, dispersed consciousness haunts relational spaces. The...

Music's Duel gathers work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material, some previously unpublished. Placed together for the...

"My father hovers in the aperture of a glistening window, suicide botched by his mother's ghost. Numbers from his slide rule pause on the sill, fallen by chance into a brilliant formula." This...

My Father: Mi Padre - 9781848617575Author: Eduardo. MogaPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 03, 2021Number of Pages: 116 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...