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On Hysteria is a lyric engagement of voice, memory, longing, and the fraught ways we speak ourselves. In conversation with Freud's Studies on Hysteria, Nancy Kuhl reframes the discourse surrounding...

On Narrowness is Claire Crowther's third collection. Her previous collections attracted wide attention; the first was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh prize. She is poet in residence at the Royal Mint...

"On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005" is Rachel Tzvia Back's second full-length collection and tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the last intifadah...

Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from a Michelin guide, procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names of...

These poems were written on the way to work, walking the two and a half miles from near Saltwell Park in Gateshead to Newcastle. I'd try to write something in my head every day before I got to work,...

Alice Kavounas's poems are rich in those qualities that we require of poems, so that we may better comprehend and celebrate our human lives." -Penelope ShuttleAuthor: Alice KavounasPublisher:...

In this twenty-first century poem, Tony Lopez samples and seamlessly combines writings from many fields of science and culture, composing by means of intuitive and discreet intervention something...

In contrast to my settled life in Wales during the 1970s, covered by Welsh Journal, the period represented by this journal was one of movements from place to place and country to country. Following...

Catherine Walsh's work always unfolds over a long span, and Optic Verve - her first book since 2005's City West - is no exception, being another book-length experimental poem.Author: Catherine...

This most recent experiment with words on the page continues the duet-passage between J.H. Prynne and the possibilities of lyrical transformation, subsequent eventually to Poems (Bloodaxe, 2015)...

In 2011 Duncan Wu moved into the forests of northern Virginia where indigenous people had once lived in considerable numbers. In the Virginia wilds, his dog Dakota would guide him to places that...

In Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian moments, expressed in vivid, precise language. Following on from The Invited (Sinclair-Stevenson),...

A survey of the life's work of one of America's most original avant-garde poets and playwrights.Author: Rochelle OwensPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Feb 15, 2013Number of Pages: 242...

The first collection in English by Lars Amund Vaage, one of the most significant poets and novelists of his generation in Norway.Author: Lars Amund VaagePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date:...

Palenque was first published jointly by Shearsman Books and Oasis Books in 1986, and sought to offer British readers an overview of what the poet had been up to since his expatriation to the USA in...

The poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido Garc?a Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorr?a, Pilar Fraile Amador, and...

Author: Vicente HuidobroPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Apr 24, 2020Number of Pages: 158 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616937ISBN-13: 9781848616936

Partly in Riga and other poems is a book in five sections, covering themes of birth (the arrival of a new son), travel in Latvia, in Greece and in Wales, contemporary politics, and the endless of...

PASS PORT is a travel document--a transcript of the first half of the at-sea installation SOUND((ING))S, which 'maps' two means of crossing one border: by sea across the English Channel, and...

A Greek merchant-explorer Pytheas - whose home port was the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseilles) - is said to be the first person to have circumnavigated the British Isles, in 325 BCE, thereby...

In 2008, Shearsman Books published Elisabeth Bletsoe's long-awaited collection, Landscape from a Dream. We now offer a volume that collects all of her earlier work, previously published in...

Two poem-sequences: Pigeons, and Pussy. A short poem on every page, 3 or 4 lines. The sequences presented on facing pages, emphasising the fact that the title word could be subtitled by the other if...

"If an echo is a 'pining into sound, ' Kuhl rewrites it in a way that gives pining uncommon agency - this is not a 'pining away' but a pining toward, a pining into. It's vigorous; it's vivid, but...

This volume reproduces John Donne's posthumous - and first - collection of poetry in its original spelling.Author: John DonnePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Mar 15, 2015Number of Pages:...

"Harriet Tarlo is at the forefront of a group of poets who take writing about topography and nature seriously; she finds new ways to express in challenging and exciting language ideas and images that...

This volume brings together the majority of Colin Simms' poems that record his visits to Afghanistan, as a naturalist, during the 1980s. Approximately half of the poems previously appeared in two...

Author: Anthony Caleshu, Rory WatermanPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: March 19, 2021Number of Pages: 156 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617593ISBN-13: 9781848617599

A collection of essays based on the conference of the same name held at the Univeristy of Plymouth in April 2007. Contributors are Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten; Andrea Brady, Allen Fisher, Robert...

Alexander Barclay, Richard Carew, Humfrey Gifford, Anne Dowriche, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, Joseph Hall, John Ford, Robert Herrick, Sidney Godolphin, William Strode, William Browne, Mary,...

Peyrou's Possibilities in Shade is a beautiful love poem, an inspired ode to self-recognition. -Marjorie PerloffAuthor: Mariano PeyrouPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jan 27, 2023Number of...