Shearsman Books

Born in Salisbury in 1957 and growing up on a dairy farm, Janet Sutherland studied at Cardiff and Essex Universities and has an MA in American poetry. After twenty years living and working in East...

A first collection for Chicago-based poet and small-press publisher, Brandi Homan. "Like the stream of cut-paper hearts in her Valentine Factory, Brandi Homan's poems are connected 'at the blade's...

hazard or fall is the first full-length collection from Catherine Hales.Author: Catherine HalesPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Apr 15, 2010Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The Middle East, both real and imagined, forms the background against which George Messo's third collection, Hearing Still, shapes its recurring themes: silence, destruction, resistance, and...

"Helen Moore not only has her own distinctive voice, she has also marked out her own territory, a territory at once local and universal. You could say she has globalised the local or rather localised...

Hegemonick is a 'free history' of the war against children, something unearthed; it is a delusional narrative, an ode to oblivion; a hymn to the goddess, the once and future porn queen; a therapeutic...

Hen Harrier Poems is Colin Simms' fifth collection with Shearsman, and his third devoted to poems on a specific species, following Otters and Martens (2004) and Gyrfalcon Poems (2007). Future plans...

These poems usher you into an intimate cinema where Gertrude Stein kisses Patti Smith. Where a bird steps through the screen and becomes a girl, where a girl moulds a cock and becomes a city, where a...

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarm? at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in...

Robert Sheppard's selection draws on every book of his poetry since Returns of 1985 through to Words Out of Time of 2015, and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his...

Jaime Robles' newest collection, Hoard, invites the reader to investigate the permeability of boundaries, those that connect and divide lovers, as well as the ones that contain buried treasures. The...

While ostensibly documenting a European vacation, Holiday interrogates historical narratives and artistic representations, examining patriarchal and nepotistic political and religious connections...

Homage contains a wide variety of work representing all strands of Johnson's work: versions from the Greek, traduced to an extraordinary degree; anti-war poems, overflowing with rage; stink-bombs...

"Pam Brown's work is fearless, acutely observant, witty and wry. She delights in the curiosities of the everyday, in notationalsprezzatura, in the penetrating encapsulation of layers of time, chance...

In her fourth collection, Home Farm, Janet Sutherland explores the farm where she grew up; a ninety-acre dairy farm in Wiltshire, rented by her parents, where they milked 50 cows and reared heifers...

There was death and death entered love; writing mutated. Even so, when the poem writes itself, it is loyal only to its own wound; this is its law of gravity. Hordes of Writing, the third book in a...

Author: Derek GromadzkiPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 10, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617402ISBN-13: 9781848617407

Horse-Man inhabits at times surreal, at times mystical territory, where the human and nonhuman merge and blend. Part keening, part celebration, Horse-Man immerses the reader in a powerful advocacy of...

Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-French poet who wrote Maldoror under the name Comte de Lautr?amont, and with a knowing nod to John Ashbery's book of the same title, this is the...

Hotel Shadow continues Kelvin Corcoran's remarkable poetic venture begun with Melanie's Book in 1996; here, with characteristically rich lyricism, Corcoran explores Greece ancient and modern...

"In House At Out, Mark Goodwin steps beyond the physical landscapes of Back of A Vast, into a new topography: a world that is a "wild's inf i nite b its" approached through the gaps and hollows in...

Subtitled 'The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli' - a neglected 20th century poet much influenced by Celan and Vallejo - this collection represents the merging of two fine Australian poets...

Author: Steve SpencePublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Nov 05, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617909ISBN-13: 9781848617902

How To Spear Sleep - 9781848617414Author: Nathan ShepherdsonPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: June 29, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Humming is Maurice Scully's first full-length book of new work since his Things That Happen project (1981-2006). Dedicated to the poet's late brother, it places human life in the larger frame of...

I Am Not from HereAuthor: Maria Do CebreiroPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Apr 15, 2010Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1848611110ISBN-13: 9781848611115

"For my money, the best poet of my generation... as indifferent to academic fashions as he is to those of the poetry market." (Clive Wilmer) "Perhaps the most challenging-and one of the most...

Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London, 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting edge poetry influenced by Black Mountain poets, the New York School of...

"In this book, Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea, as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical ways of...

Poetry. I-FORMATION in its entirety is comprised of four separate groups of poems, that when ordered in a particular way, tell a Genesis story. The first book (2010) begins in a garden and ends with...