Shearsman Books

This is Michael Smith's first collection since his Collected Poems of 2009, and is an elegiac volume. As the author says: "Let me try to define prayer as I am using it here. It is a voice in the...

Preludes are primarily autobiographical poems written in old age. Their principal 'ground' southern England, and especially the area between the New Forest and the Solent. They are 'poems of place'...

This collection of Gerry Loose's poetry selects from thirty years of work. As Peter Manson says in his introduction to the book: "Almost uniquely, Loose unites a Linnaean intoxication with names with...

Growing up in Jersey in the 70s, before I left to study at Essex University, wasn't easy as an anomalous poet living in a largely pedestrian, materialistic society. My escape came by finding...

Putting On My SpeciesAuthor: Sasja JanssenPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Apr 24, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617054ISBN-13: 9781848617056

"The figure of ra-t slithers through these pages like the Zelig of London Town-an ocular witness at every juncture of its history. His split name makes him a fractured and contradictory creature...

Raag Leaves is a sequence of poems offered to the author's friend, the artist Paresh Chakraborty, one of whose works graces the cover of this volume. The sequence of 37 short lyrics - printed on the...

This collection, the author's first full-length book, gathers poems written over the past decade. The poems, some gathered from previous pamphlets, are concerned with place, love, identity and...

One of 5 chapbooks published in the summer of 2012, this is Kit Fryatt's first publication. Kit Fryatt divides his time between Ireland and Scotland and runs the Wurm im Apfel reading series in...

Rampant Inertia completes a trilogy of books, following Term as in Aftermath (Ahadada 2009) and Even if only out of (Veer 2011). Selections from Alan Halsey's earlier work appeared in Five Years Out...

Claire Crowther's first collection, Stretch of Closures, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection prize. She is Deputy Editor of Long Poem Magazine, and lives in Somerset.Author:...

Comprising work from the early 1970s onwards, Reassembling Still is by far the largest and most comprehensive collection of David Miller's poetry, and includes all of his poetry that he wishes to...

The poems of Red Arcadia present a jittery, spasmodic-often obscured-series of moving x-ray images of contemporary culture in its frenetic contradictions, its self-destructiveness, and sometimes in...

Author: LARS AMUND. VAAGEPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617119ISBN-13: 9781848617117

"A sequence of fragments seems the most appropriate form for a work of this kind, introductory, surveying, essentially personal, marked, as with all things, by my own reading and preoccupations...

Poetry. Women's Studies. In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceausescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan...

John Welch's new book, his fourteenth since his first full length collection appeared in 1984, is writing that reflects on the strangeness of continuing to make poems 'Like a ball / thrown from an...

Riding Pisces brings together a number of hard-to-find and uncollected texts from almost the full extent of Yang Lian's career - from Masks and Crocodiles (Sydney, 1990 - although the translations...

This is the first collection of Hanne Bramness' work to be published in English for many years, and it surveys an increasingly impressive body of work, which won her the prestigious Scandinavian...

SarabadAuthor: Abdulkareem KasidPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Oct 12, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 184861442XISBN-13: 9781848614420

Here are arcane mysteries, here are forgotten histories; here are assorted arcana and incunabula; and here there is a transposition of a Chinese classic to contemporary Glasgow, filtered through the...

In Scar, Carrie Etter compellingly explores the effects of climate change on her home state of Illinois. The language shifts and evolves painfully as the land and its inhabitants find themselves...

Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse...

Oystercatcher Press has published over 50 pamphlets of contemporary poetry in its short existence. It won the inaugural Michael Marks Award 'for outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form'...

In Sea Table Kelvin Corcoran brings to all back home. Not that it was ever very far away, but for twenty years or more he has been writing a lot of poetry concerning Greece and may have gained a...

'Seaport' deals with many aspects of the history and development of Liverpool, drawing on a wide range of documentary sources, and culminating with a vivid account of what the national press called...

Second TongueAuthor: Yolanda Castaño|Keith PaynePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: January 10, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616570ISBN-13:...

The Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) is one of the most important figures in 20th-century Hispanic poetry and, with C?sar Vallejo, one of the pioneering avant-gardists in Spanish. Originally...

Pessoa wrote a large number of poems in English, some of them in the guise of early heteronyms (such as Alexander Search and Charles Robert Anon) which prove to be fascinating precursors of the...

"G?zim Hajdari's generous literary, scholarly, and editorial work extends across different countries and languages. Resistance, commitment, social justice, freedom, courage, and solidarity are at the...