Shearsman Books

Author: ROBIN. FULTON MACPHERSONPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Sep 25, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617186ISBN-13: 9781848617186

The author says of this book: These poems were written in Bangor, in north Wales, in Barcelona, in London, on the Baltic coast and in Fez and Marrakech. Despite the distances involved they are the...

This collection makes a place for space and light. Language ascends and reflects back on itself in short lyrical poems and longer fragmented sequences. A woman, at a table, writing; Woolf's phrase...

Presents a book-length poem that appears to confront specifically Jewish themes and can also be read and thought - through in non-denominational ways, not least because at its core lie questions...

At the End of the World: Contemporary Poetry from Bulgaria is an anthology of eighteen Bulgarian poets writing and publishing from the middle of the twentieth century to today. Rather than being a...

In At the Point, Joseph Massey's second full-length collection of poems, memory gives way to edges and angles, to "Sound heaped/on sound," to spaces that "make the shade/tangible" as words arrange a...

At the Western Gates was first published in 1985, and contained five powerful long poems that exemplify Tarn's work in the late 70s and early 80s. Here, they are joined by another sequence,...

Avebury freely moves through time, from pre-textual history to descriptions of art and civilisation, in the same way that Olson's Maximus Poems and all of Eliot's poems in Four Quartets envision...

Avia is a book-length epic poem that takes for its subject matter the war in the air in World War Two. The verse narratives are stories told by combat pilots from all the major battle theatres, but...

Tien Mai, the poet-narrator of Awaking Demons, is a self-exiled Vietnamese princeling grumpily eking out a hotel life in 1930s Switzerland, but he is also humorous, cynical, profound, romantic - and...

"These poems disclose a poet's rich relationship to the natural world by stripping away, by letting a raw objectivist lyric scrape off any rhetorical surface to discover the details beneath. This...

Corcoran's first collection since his New & Selected Poems in 2004, 'Backward Turning Sea' (i.e. the Mediterranean) shows the author deepening his engagement with Greece, both ancient and modern -...

These five sequences of linguistically-driven word patterns, draw on the visual and written work of named photographers to explore ideas of seeing, language and being. Each line sits on an another...

The design of a coin is an act of succinct aggrandisement. Bare George explores the coinage of power through a far more famous numismatic image: created in 1817 for King George III and his son, the...

Why would anyone want to keep their braided hair in a basket? "The women in my family / keep the hair / they cut off / in a basket of braids. It's an ancient tradition, / no one can remember / who...

Be My Reader is a trove of texts made and found by Finlay over the past two decades, touching on philosophy, landscape, dance, football, travel and technology. Affectionate, celebratory and...

Beast is the first collection in English from award-winning Catalan poet Irene SolA, a darkly imaged, startling and lyrically precise exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and multiple forms of...

I do have a feeling about the Now and it is that the problems which wrecked most British poets thirty years ago have been resolved and that there is a whole world of poets who have just walked out of...

Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big HouseAuthor: Kent JohnsonPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Mar 21, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles's shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter...

Before Dark reflects Martin Anderson's peripatetic lifestyle of three decades. During a weekend in Paris in 1971, whilst teaching at the University of Grenoble, he met T.T. Wong, a young Chinese...

Below This Level recounts the experience of prostate cancer: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive...

Beneath the Rime is Sriol Troup's second collection of poems. Rooted in real and imagined landscapes, the poems in this volume explore memory, art and language, asking above all what it is to be...

These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and...

Berlin Fresco is the first volume in English by the German poet, translator, editor, and publisher, Norbert Hummelt. Born in the Rhineland in 1962, he has been a freelance writer since 1991, and...

When Bernard Spencer died in September 1963, he left behind two collections of poetry and a volume of collaborative translations from George Seferis. The second of these collections, With Luck...

The work in Mary Leader's third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own...

Assuming the form of postcards authored by an "alien" of unknown nationality, ethnicity, and gender, addressing a variety of people and organizations (political figures, multinational corporations,...

A first full-length collection in the UK for Pete Smith, a Canadian poet born in Coventry but resident in Kamloops, BC, since 1974. In the UK and Canada he worked as a psychiatric nurse with...

Em Strang's poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideo-logical concern; it must also be rooted in the gravity that structures everything, rich in the old pagan knowledge...