Shearsman Books

Author: Lesley HarrisonPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Feb 21, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616988ISBN-13: 9781848616981

In 1999, living in southern California, Carrie Etter began a series of poems focusing on our cultural obsession with creating beginnings and origins-a new day, a new chapter, a fresh start-called...

Doctor Placebo finds himself at the end of the western intellectual tradition, and on certain mornings feels almost as old. As a medical practitioner he broods about his patients; as a writer he...

Drawing in AshAuthor: Will StonePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Sep 18, 2015Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1848614594ISBN-13: 9781848614598

Circumventing conventional narratives of trauma and recovery, 'Dreaming Arrival' presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of John Welch's experience of...

Readers will search these pages in vain for coverage of Tbilisi or Ararat, or praise for Georgian wine or Armenian brandy . . . although Khachaturian gets an adjective of his own in (all too...

Duetcetera is about voices taking each other for granted, saying "etc etc" and not listening, nevertheless turning out to duet. It contains double- and multi-columned poems, where each column can be...

Harry Guest's remarkable sequence of Elegies were first published as a chapbook in 1980 by Pig Press in Durham, and were later collected in Lost and Found a large collection of the author's work in...

A first collection for Leicestershire poet Mark Goodwin, and winner of an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. "It's thrilling to welcome a new poet into the company of our seriously exciting younger nature...

From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting...

Enchant / ExtinguishAuthor: M. StasiakPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: 20-Aug-21Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617623ISBN-13: 9781848617629

Interviews, essays and conversations with or about Alan Garner, Russell Hoban, John Burnside, Iain Sinclair, David Toop, Nicholas Royle, Andrew Poppy, David Kennedy, Greg Bottoms, Ken Edwards, Robert...

Author: Peter LarkinPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: February 05, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617569ISBN-13: 9781848617568

We always live in the last moment of history. No one has ever come any further in time. All ages shape their own apocalyptic vision, a way of understanding the perils and revelations that perennially...

Following the publication in 1557 of Tottel's Miscellany, a number of other anthologies or miscellanies appeared. Englands Helicon differs from its predecessors in representing a particular style of...

This volume includes the 4 chapbooks published in 1917-18 and presents, at first glance, an odd mixture. Chronologically, we have El espejo de agua, written in 1914-16, first published in 1916, but,...

In Susanne Dyckman's first full-length collection, following from her Etherdome Press chapbook published in 2005, poetic tonalities and phrasings are used to disrupt the chronology of past and...

In 1993, say, the term Performance Writing, if used at all, suggested simply writing for performance. By 2011, when the author of this collection became the first Professor of Performance Writing, it...

This companion volume to On Performance Writing, with implicated readings, brings together most of the essays-taking a deliberately broad view of that term so as to include, for example, two...

Essays on the Poetry of Trevor Joyce is the first collection of critical responses to an Irish poet whose writing consistently challenges received ideas of Irish poetry. The contributions that make...

Testing some possibilities and limits of cultural and linguistic exchange, a selection of imitations of Max Jacob follow free improvisations on early Chinese love poems and texts by Persius, Tacitus...

European Hymns traces the year through the seasons. Beginning with the optimism of spring, it offers the arrival of nightingales in rural France, then navigates summer trips, the shift to Autumn and...

Author: Sasha SteensenPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Oct 15, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617100ISBN-13: 9781848617100

A first book by a young New Zealand poet, whose work - experimental in form - owes much to music and to developments in American poetry in the latter half of the 20th century. While consciously...

Exact Colour of Snow articulates a complicit, playful commentary on our mundane interactions with the natural world. Notes, fragments and glimpsed biographies explore how we ignore our fragile...

"[...] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez's False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a...

"Faulty Mothering is based on my work with families but focusing on mothers in particular who are experiencing problems in attachment to their children. A backdrop to such difficulties maybe poverty,...

From Goethe to Elizabeth Bishop, Vivien Eliot to Winckelmann, Homer and Marilyn Monroe-Faust's poems meditate on the accrual of loss and of the impossibility of home.Author: Sandeep ParmarPublisher:...

A first collection for Irish poet-translator Anamar?a Crowe Serrano. Over the past two to three years her work has been appearing in magazines in Ireland, the UK and the USA, as have her translations...

This a revised edition of Zbigniew Kotowicz's pioneering essay on the work of Pessoa, who is finally being recognised as one of the great European writers, and one of the great modernist poets of the...