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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...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Joshua Edwards. FICTICIA was first published in Mexico in 2006. The book is a trilogy of long poems: an initial sequence bearing the...

Jacinta Groan believes she sees the Virgin Mary.Author: Harriet TarloPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Oct 28, 2016Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, inviting the reader to consider 'the necessity of mystery', where grief and joy, death and rebirth, stagnation and transformation exist...

'Flags' was the only volume of poetry published by the Russian emigr? poet Boris Poplavsky (1903-1935) during his own lifetime. A significant Surrealist volume, it is one of the "lost" creations of a...

Flightless Bird is a book of poems that explores the plight and place of flightless birds in our imaginations and in the world. Ostriches, emus, great auks and dodos fill the pages, sharing their...

When Las linternas flotantes (Floating Lanterns) was first published, in 2009, Mercedes Roff? explained that the book was "a reaction to things that left us speechless: September 11, Argentina's...

Florentino and the Devil, a famous poem in Venezuela, is the story of a poetic duel, a contrapunteo, between Florentino, a llanero (a cattleman of the plains) and The Devil. Singing to a traditional...

Author: Molly VogelPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Mar 27, 2020Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 184861702XISBN-13: 9781848617025

In this dazzlingly various collection, plain-spoken storytelling is set against more oblique or lyrical voices, while sonnets, sestinas, villanelles and 'triplets' (juxtaposing conventional and...

For the Greek Spring is a selection of Kelvin Corcoran's poetry about Greece, combining new work with poems from his previous collections. The poet's sustained engagement with Greece is evident at...

ichard Berengarten has made the long poem and the sequence his forte, and many of these poems have received international acclaim. Through his choice of themes and motifs, and his affirmation of...

Forest Music is Susan Connolly's second full-length collection. Many poems in the book depict Susan Connolly's personal encounter with her landscape. Living in Drogheda, close to the Boyne Valley,...

In Forget Reading, Anthony Hawley's second collection, poems speak up despite themselves, and in doing so they af?rm poetry's slight, subterranean power inside a culture of overwhelming and decadent...

Galicia, the Basque country and Catalonia have often found in Ireland an "Inspiring Other" whether for political, social or cultural reasons. This anthology engages in an intercultural dialogue which...

Forlorn Light: Virgia Woolf Found PoemsAuthor: Nazifa IslamPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: 6-Aug-21Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617844ISBN-13:...

In the voice of an eighteenth century poet who the previous afternoon had written 'Kubla Khan', this long prose meditation takes the reader through an English pastoral landscape to the Central Asian...

From Rupert Loydell's first visit to this small Cornish harbour town-an event recorded in one of the poems included in this book - he, along with many others, has been fascinated by the combination...

Gender City is in our skins, in the law, in our names (like Trudi and Terra), in places like the Barbie Doll Museum, in events like falling on the sidewalk, being in prison in a city with buildings...

A collection of monologue poems by characters from the New Testament, viewed from the perspective of their Jewish background. Thinking his way back into situations depicted in the stories of the New...

Author: Josephine BalmerPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Feb 04, 2022Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617941ISBN-13: 9781848617940

"Larkin's is the most radically decentered poetry of ecological apprehension and conscience that we have in English, and if it is also among the most estrangingly beautiful, that is no accident...

A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in...

GlaciationAuthor: Will StonePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Sep 18, 2015Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1848614586ISBN-13: 9781848614581

The author's 13 collection, one which proves that there is nothing that poetry can't say, and that a book of poems can breathe and walk around in the world and face what is, after all, not the first...

"Ralph Hawkins' poems... minimize the gap of 'constructive effort' between the basic seeking of pleasure and pleasurable sensations, and the 'mediated' pleasure of the poem.[...]He does not bother...

"From Anglo-Saxon diphthongs to that mysterious three-dimensional mirrored state of being, the enantiomorph, from Aquinas to H?lderlin to California, Deborah Meadows takes us on a journey through the...

Greek Passages is a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece, mostly in the vicinity of Argos and thus at the hub of early Greek power. The structure is entirely diurnal, building...

This is Colin Simms' third Shearsman collection. A noted naturalist and expert on birds of prey, he collects here his poems on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied...

These poems explore the remnants of a system of ancient narrative trackways that criss-cross the landscapes of south and south west England. These flows of energy underpin the hermetics of enclosure...