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From the opening sequence that riffs on the St Brendan epic, through November's titular birds, to the trawler determined to find an escape at the collection's finale, these poems examine various...

Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile-in Italy, France, Germany and the...

Bitter GrassAuthor: Gezim HajdariPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: January 17, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617038ISBN-13: 9781848617032

Loss destabilizes. black seeds on a white dish is a chronicle of loss and the way lives and language must be reshaped after that destabilization. The losses explored in the volume include the loss of...

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Merle Bachman's BLOOD PARTY is a remarkable memoir, told in fragments, interruptions--in ways that prohibit any fixed retelling. In it, the impossibility of telling becomes...

Poetry. Brandi Homan's BOBCAT COUNTRY is the unholy love child of Lynda Barry and Ween. Fabulously honest, surprising, and hilarious, these poems are a TGIFriday's extravaganza of retarded American...

In 2002 and 2005, Menard Press published Then and Now - Words in the Dark and From Now to Then, as the first two books of a three-part work-in-progress. Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems is a...

Fryatt is playful, with word-games, variations in line and length and dynamic outbreaks of rhyme giving the poems a kind of performance feel--but they also have a very strong page presence, their...

Bona Drag, a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld...

Bona Vada (gay slang for "good looking"), the companion volume to Bona Drag (Shearsman, 2009), again finds Jeremy Reed - described by J.G. Ballard as having "an imagination almost extraterrestrial in...

This disturbing new collection from Janet Sutherland explores the deeply mischievous, but darkly malevolent figure of Bone Monkey. A trickster who has always existed, he's one of the old gods who...

Paul Naylor's Book of Changes starts with the understanding that there is no greater change in our lives than death - except birth; birth is the change that continues to change. Both are difficult to...

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's Book of Rahim is his first collection of new poetry in twenty-five years. It contains extraordinary records of the everyday, as well as reimaginings of history that make it...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss. "Gaspar Orozco's extraordinary BOOK OF THE PEONY blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing...

Boombox is Rupert M. Loydell's third collection with Shearsman, and further demonstrates the author's range of styles and startling application of collage and montage techniques to poetry.Author:...

Bottomland is a collection of six longer sequences of poems: American Rough-leg; Bottomland; Catalogue of Utilities; A Pictorial History of Wilderness; Route to Cloudless: Day; and Mimesis, Synaptic...

The poems in British Standards are at once transpositions of Romantic-era sonnets, and satirical skewerings of recent political events.Author: Robert SheppardPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication...

Hearing Rilke quoted at the Co-op, an experience evoked in the title poem to Peter Robinson's latest collection, Buried Music, the poet continues his work of discovering poetry in everyday, anywhere...

But First I Call Your NameAuthor: Hadassa TalPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Oct 22, 2021Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617798ISBN-13:...

'Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea' - the eminent Victorian A.C. Swinburne, from whose long work about the lost city of Dunwich this collection takes its title, was not the first or last...

In Cadastral Map, Jill Magi writes: "I enter as a writer, one kind of mapmaker, needing to ask, is traditional nature writing in English a cadastral map? Abstracting, narrowing, taking an especially...

Cagliostro was an 18th-century alchemist, occultist, mage, and charlatan, who became a sensation in the Paris of Louis XVI, claiming to possess arcane secrets and to have lived for thousands of years...

More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women...

Poems in this collection take a new psychogeographical approach in order to explore urban landscape - both known and new districts of Sheffield and Budapest. Writing from the viewpoint of a outsider...

The poems in this volume are an attempt to capture something of the layered histories, from ancient times to present, of the place where I now live: the River Teign and its surrounding area, using...

Prose poems, metafictions, short stories, meditations, allegories: all are here. Casual Ties fully deserves to stand alongside Wevill's poetry and should be known by a wider public.Author: DAVID...

Chus Pato is the leading contemporary poet in Galicia. All of her work is written in the Galician language (Galego), but contrary perhaps to one's expectations of work written in what is a minority...

The poems in Chocolate Che were written in Cuba in the fiftieth year of the revolution; in India working with dying destitutes and recovering from tuberculosis; travelling up and down the spine of...

The central poem in Wendy Saloman's new collection, and from which it takes its title, is the narrative of a woman's journey through various crises in Jewish history, from biblical times to modern...

Toby Olson began writing poetry while in high school and he continued writing it while in the U.S. Navy, and later as a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He received a Master's Degree at...