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Simon Perril's new collection gathers two discrete works, one on the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser, and the other an engagement with two texts by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.Author:...

As its title announces, this book collects two interviews with the American poet Edward Dorn (1929-99). 'The Peak Interview' (1971) was published in a Vancouver student newspaper and contains...

World Literature Today has described John Mateer as "the most recent reincarnation of of the international poet". Born in South Africa, John Mateer has for the past two decades been documenting the...

'A Ritual Landscape' sets out Aidan Semmens' stall from the start of this, his third full-length collection. These are poems that 'have legs'-that continue the journey outward begun in A Stone Dog...

This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and...

Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book...

Author: IAN. SEEDPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Sep 18, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617232ISBN-13: 9781848617230

'Rosa Alcal?, originally from Paterson, N.J. is a true daughter of W.C. Williams with a distinct, gutsy, and penetrating identity twining a public poeisis with her own luminous particulars. I know of...

Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems published by Shearsman in 2013 - in that this book includes completed versions of the master's unfinished poems- this...

Upstate is the journal of poet and lecturer Jeremy Hooker's time spent in North America during the academic year 1994-5. Like his earlier 'Welsh Journal' (Seren, 2001), which covered his first...

The world within Urn and Drum is a cornucopia of shapes, colours, and objects, fashioned almost as a gleeful, surreal picture-book; a playful naivety that leads to serious questions of what it means...

Vauxhall is pitched where voice and experience coincide. The poems sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and ven-ding machines. Vauxhall...

When I approach experimental poetry related to images I ask myself, does it work? By that I mean, does it make me feel [that] the two art forms feed off each other? In the case of Viewer / Viewed,...

'Views of the Hudson', written during a visit to New York in 2008, explores ideas of belonging and displacement. In a flood of images from this overcrowded information-rich city it weaves a narrative...

And here, where forest entrails spill into winter light, you find me, straying out from the forest's dark memory - Itinerant Hebrew poet David Vogel, Arctic explorer Samuel Hearne and surveyor David...

Visiting Exile is John Welch's first new collection since his Collected Poems and the analysis memoir, Dreaming Arrival, published by Shearsman in 2008.Author: John WelchPublisher: Shearsman...

The poems of Walk Song build through a series of sequences which look to animate solidarities and the languages of rights. These are poems of friendship and movement, landscape and politics, action...

Warrant Error is not just a book about the war on terror, yet neither does it seek to evade it, but to exceed it. Each sonnet in the four sets of 24 (plus 4 other poems, making a hundred) evokes a...

Unforgettable poems that, on the verge of tales and fables, drag the reader toward a universe of screened images, like 'pollen clouds in the slant evening light'. -Antonio Ortega, El PaisAuthor:...

She tries to conjure up places and situations which normal language does not reach, from which it has disappeared, and then let something unheard communicate with us across a distance for which we...

Author: David RushmerPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Aug 05, 2022Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848618298ISBN-13: 9781848618299

If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If (to contradict Wiitgenstein) poems are engaged in...

Here are Irish Lighthouses, Ned Kelly (found morphing in and out of a lupine self following the destruction of the last wolf in Ireland), poems presenting animals that have been damaged and reformed...

This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon its central figures and provisional institutions. In...

As 'blue comes on' in these elegies, a unique genre emerges, a lyrical epic that speculates on a world imagined through the physics of blue light, 'cyanometrics', the blue waves of the spectrum,...

"Fani Papageorgiou gives us a poetry in which "almost everything happens in language" yet what is crucial is precisely what's covered by that harsh little word "almost," and in which "empty space is...

Whitman and Truth is a set of reading notes intended to introduce third-year university students to Whitman's reading of war, with enlightening comparisons offered from the work Susan Sontag, Sir...

Who Was Cousin Alice? & Other Questions attempts to answer both the first question posed in the title about American poet John Matthias' early family memories, and then to raise and engage, in a...

Poetry. This poetry unhinges the sensible cultural body and activates other oscillations of the sensible, which chime with acts of love and political subjects resuturing what are given to be facts...

Marking the 50th anniversary of the earliest poems brought together in this volume, we now offer a second edition of Gustaf Sobin's first collection, a book which has been hard to find, other than...