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Carmen Bugan is the author of the collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, the memoir Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police, and the monograph Seamus Heaney and...

The poems in The Invention of Culture mix prosodic rhythm with prose syntax and variant line shapes, as though the page were not only paper but also screen and musical score inscribed by a languaged...

Author: George MessoPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: January 29, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617062ISBN-13: 9781848617063

Isthmus was Jeremy Reed's first collection in 1980. Overwrought, perhaps even over-written, it shows the author struggling with a gamut of new influences and trying to find his way in a brave new...

Author: Martin HarrisonPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 29, 2020Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617011ISBN-13: 9781848617018

Author: Alireza AbizPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: June 30, 2021Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617704ISBN-13: 9781848617704

Isobel Thrilling was born in Suffolk, and brought up in a mining village in the north-east of England; she read English at Hull University and spent many years as Head of Service for teaching English...

Author: Bridget KhursheedPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jan 14, 2022Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617933ISBN-13: 9781848617933

Anthony Mellors was born in the fen country, where he had a troubled childhood and failed to attend various schools. He worked as a lithographic artist for printing firms in Skegness and Great...

This book is about the people and the landscape of Andalusia in the mid-20th century. Inspired by the landscape around the author's family home in Andalusia, it is about his country house and farm...

A writer of poems, plays, essays and fiction, Alice Miller has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a...

Since the 1970s, Peter Riley and his wife have been making regular trips to the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales, and he has been writing a series of poems and meditations about the place - a...

"As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces and scenarios. Here, in his writing, that world is disclosed in meticulous detail. It amounts to a...

Where poetry is dominated by amateurs, its key ideas are the ones that nobody owns. Underneath the glittering cavalcade of conscious and innovative art is another world of poetry without technique,...

The Look of Goodbye contains Peter Robinson's poetry from his last half dozen years living and working in Sendai and Kyoto. Difficulties associated with having your heart in Europe and your life in...

Centred on Australian suburbia in the 60s, 70s and 80s, The Lovemakers explores the inner and outer tensions of families, friendships and society whilst charting the sleaze, mayhem and humanity that...

The Lower Reaches is framed within precise geography, the Lower Hope region of the Thames estuary where the author was born and grew up beside a river on which "the dreams of men, the seed of...

"Rosa Alcal?'s poems dwell in the liminal space between the personal and the political: poems built on the idea that 'the world exists, ' and that work to define the metaphysical and ephemeral...

This new collection brings together three central elements in the poetry and prose of David Grubb. There is the world of surreal identities, of wonders, disturbances, angels, fire sermons and...

Sandeep Parmar's powerful debut collection, The Marble Orchard, steps boldly through the personal archive of family histories to art, literature and the imagined lives of modern and ancient...

"In The Masses the creepy-crawlies visibly teem. Adapting the sound-mutating technique Goodland perfected in Gloss, where well-known phrases are minutely changed to sly and comic effect, here the...

Author: Martin Corless-SmithPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 10, 2021Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617585ISBN-13: 9781848617582

The Messier Objects are a catalogue of astro-nomical bodies discovered and published by Charles Messier in 1771. In this new collection of poems, Michael Zand re-frames these objects as totemic...

a poet who stands at the very forefront of twenty-first-century lyricism' -Ian Brinton, P.N. ReviewAuthor: Peter HughesPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jul 01, 2023Number of Pages: 92...

If you write out "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y kin - the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my...

The mute-perhaps especially he-can be expressive too. That is one of the claims/assertions Lars Amund Vaage develops in these poems. Many of the poems concern work. Work can also be creation,...

Monochromatic kaleidoscope of winter. Limited components revolving, generating a shifting mosaic that replicates the passage of the winter days themselves. A modeling of time, its observable passage...

The Necessity of Poetics marks the moves Robert Sheppard has made as a poet-critic around the notion of poetics in general, and the poetics of linguistically innovative poetry in particular, and his...

Lush, languid, enamored with the natural world, The Ocean Liner's Wake is a book of longing. In these wide-ranging poems the Other takes many forms: lover or God, a bridge, a sprig of forsythia. But...

Francis Ledwidge was a frequent visitor to the McGoona household at Donaghmore, near Navan, Co. Meath. Matty McGoona, an amateur naturalist and musician, became his close friend. A chance encounter...