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A True Story Based on LiesAuthor: Jennifer ClementPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jan 24, 2025Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1848619545ISBN-13:...

A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album is a postscript to Anthony Rudolf's memoir of childhood, The Arithmetic of Memory (1999) and accompanies the newly published Silent Conversations: A Reader's Life...

Surely it's time to write a poem according to John James. Two quatrains please, written to the opening of A Theory of Poetry." And so the request went to 29 friends and collaborators of John James,...

Author: Vicente. HuidobroPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: July 30, 2021Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617755ISBN-13: 9781848617759

Advice to a Young Poet is an English translation, first published on the centenary of the author's birth in 1967, of Max Jacob's posthumous Conseils ? un jeune po?te. This was Jacob's last major...

After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing lays bare the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with what Jon Thompson sees as a culture of violence and war...

Author: David MillerPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Feb 18, 2022Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848618042ISBN-13: 9781848618046

Accompanying Alan Wall's Gilgamesh is his new collection of shorter poems and sequences, the centrepiece of which is the London section, in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of old...

All Space Away and In ... is on mist-smudged snow just to our north or in a bulbous evolving sky or in a rhyolite bowl of wobbling Welsh syllables ... Here Mark Goodwin becomes involved with animals...

"The small poems . . . slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory, of thinking and looking and being in the world, a kind of history that is happening on the sidelines...

When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added a Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and 'Talks...

Rupert Loydell's second Shearsman collection is another large compendium of his many-faceted experimental writing. "More than ever, Rupert Loydell's new book An Experiment in Navigation reminds me...

Deliberately and quietly, Gerry Loose has spent years walking the woodlands to observe the poetry of clouds and winds; to cheer the dance of gnats and moths, to listen intently to the musical...

Published to coincide with the poet's eightieth birthday, An Unofficial Roy Fisher is a showcase for the work of this extraordinary contemporary British poet. It begins with an unofficial gathering...

'Analfabeto / An Alphabet' was written in Recife, Brazil, and Brooklyn, New York. Part dictionary, part travel diary, part historical record, it crosses genre boundaries narrating a story of...

Ananios of Kleitor introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet largely unknown and hitherto unread outside of a small circle of cognoscenti. The poet's...

Ancestral Lines is a sequence of poems about 'the river of desire' that flows through the lives of a family. In these poems Jeremy Hooker recalls his parents and grandparents, and an elusive great...

Author: AGNIESZKA. STUDZINSKAPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: 1-Oct-21Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617771ISBN-13: 9781848617773

Ancient Light is expatriate Scottish poet Robin Fulton Macpherson's new collection. Shorter and more gnomic than the work that made his name in the 60s, the poet continues to have a vigorous voice in...

Author: Aaron KentPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: July 09, 2021Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617666ISBN-13: 9781848617667

Anime, Animus, Anima is formed from a mass of influences but most prominently from three classic Japanese anime. Parts One and Three evolved from imagery in Ghost in the Shell (1995, Production I.G...

The poems and prose poems in Anonymous Intruder navigate the vulnerabilities revealed in relationships, only to abandon these in a wandering search for new encounters and new truths. The seeking...

The title of the collection-a term borrowed from anatomy and transposed onto the area of human relations (one's relationship with oneself as well as with others)-should be read in the ambivalence...

Described as "one of our most original and compelling poets," Craig Watson makes his long-awaited return to poetry with Apologia, published posthumously following his passing in January 2022.Author:...

Poetry. David Lloyd's two recent chapbooks, Sill and Vega, have seen his poetic writing develop a constellated elegance, drawing on the European dialectical lyric for the resonance of key terms such...

Ver?nica Volkow is one of Mexico's most significant poets in the post-Paz period. The centrepiece of the book is her astonishing sequence 'Arcana', with one poem for each card in the Tarot pack...

Archilochus, Greece's first lyric poet, took part in the earliest colonial expeditions. Perril's Archilochus has been sent into exile to colonise the moon, that curator of lost objects and desires...

Huidobro published "Poemas ?rticos" in Madrid in 1918, this being the last of a rapid series of publications which established him as a major new talent both in French and in Spanish. This was his...

Are We Not Drawn... takes off from a palindrome quoted in Anne Michael's novel, Fugitive Pieces: 'Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?' Drawn onward; but trapped in repetition...

Robert Vas Dias, an Anglo-American born and now resident in London, has published ten collections in the UK and USA, the most recent of which are London Cityscape Sijo and other poems (Perdika,...