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This volume collects all of Toby Olson's work since 1983, including the previously unpublished volume See / Saw. From 1983-94 he mostly wrote fiction, but continued to write poetry throughout, and...

Alvaro de Campos, along with Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro is one of Pessoa's most important poetic heteronyms and, like these fellow fictitious poets, made his first appearance in 1914. He was...

The second volume in the Collected Poems of John Matthias, following Vol. 2 of the Shorter Poems in 2011, this volume covers all of the author's long poems from before 2010. That year's Trigons is...

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was one of Spain's most important poets of the 19th century, and the instigator of a new Spanish version of Romanticism, influenced by German models such as Heine. Born in...

Author: Sir John SucklingPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jun 26, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616120ISBN-13: 9781848616127

"A life's work of steady, compassionate, precise observation animates these deceptively simple poems, rooted in their landscape and making a sense of home over and over again in each one. A virtuoso...

Chronologically the first, Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 is editorially the third of John Matthias's three-volume Shearsman Collected Poems. It includes the poems that first made Matthias's...

The first volume to be released in an ongoing project collecting all the poems of John Mattthias. Two volumes of shorter poems and one of longer poems will form the complete package and, with this...

Jeremy Reed's poems are his diary, his autobiography, his therapy, his addiction. He has evolved continuously over more than four decades - Formalist, symbolist, language poet, nature-poet,...

This is not so much a memoir as an immemoir, fretting at gaps and losses that start to expose absence as the heart of my poetic life; for with poetry I have needed to fill in the absence by...

Comparisons considers the disparities between memory and expectation as well as the alteration in events separated by the gap of years-since, sometimes when we journey, we are "hoping by space to...

Complayntes for Dr. Neuro is John Matthias's first collection since the publication of his three-volume collected poems.Author: John MatthiasPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Sep 09,...

In the eighth of his Twelve Poems for Cavafy (Dodeka Poiemata yia Kavafy, 1974 ) entitled 'Misunderstandings, ' the Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos assures his readers that the older, deceased Alexandrian...

Ovid wrote his famous stories of change just before being banished from the Roman home that he loved, and after travelling throughout Italy, observing its many diverse and vibrant landscapes,...

CONT. is the third section of Amy Evans' poetic sequence, following on from The Sea Quells in 2013 and Collecting Shells in 2011. It can also be read as an individual chapbook. Through innovation...

In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of 'Ancestors and Species', Tom Lowenstein's new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances. A long expensive journey. The...

Couldn't You? brings together most of John Hall's poems for the page written since the publication of Else Here in 1999 - and writing for the page here assumes black ink on white rectangular paper,...

Author: MERVYN. TAYLORPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Aug 14, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617275ISBN-13: 9781848617278

'Crab & Winkle' is a warped Shepherd's Calendar for the age of climate change: a journal of Australian poet Laurie Duggan's first year as a resident in England, it centres specifically on the area of...

The world according to Tsvetanka Elenkova is both lucid and hieratic. In it, a lover's eye is 'a disc on a chain /with the god of the sun /the window casts on the wall'; but love itself is an 'Altar'...

"This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influences and how they became involved in poetry. My...

Author of ten novels (among others The Life of Jesus, Seaview and Utah) and over 20 collections of poetry (including We Are the Fire - Selected Poems, and Human Nature, both from New Directions),...

Poetry. DAY FOR NIGHT, Richard Deming's searching new collection of poems, takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. With a complex lyricism, these poems often...

Author: Alexandra. SashePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 31, 2021Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617712ISBN-13: 9781848617711

DeclareAuthor: Geraldine ClarksonPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jun 17, 2016Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 184861506XISBN-13: 9781848615069

This 150-page collection covers the entire poetic career of David Wevill, who has faded from view as a poet in the UK since his departure for the United States in the early 1970s. His first four...

Mary Coghill's first collection is a sequence of poems that seeks to engage with the problem of the role of woman in the city. Urbanisation is frequently seen as a male phenomenon, and it is usually...

Born in 1964 in Havana, Cuba, Omar P?rez is a member of the first generation to live fully under the auspices of the island''s post-1959 government: children raised to envision the present and future...

Different Kinds of Music follows Timothy "Westy" Westmont through six episodes from his childhood and youth, through his experiences as an archivist and a thief, to encounters with William Faulkner's...

The poems in 'Diorama with Fleeing Figures' delicately point to devastating historical events. Instead of mounting judgments, the poems accrue power gently, even stealthily. Evoking a language at...