Shearsman Books

Ianthe PoemsAuthor: Peter PhilpottPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Mar 20, 2015Number of Pages: 72 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1848614179ISBN-13: 9781848614178

Ickerbrow TrigAuthor: Michael HaslamPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: January 17, 2020Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 184861697XISBN-13: 9781848616974

The prose poems in Identity Papers seek to construct a living bridge between the self and its shadow, between the self and other, and between present and past. They do so with a vulnerable faith,...

A unique poetic testament of life in and out of Hong Kong between 2019 and 2022, spanning the Covid epidemic, and unrelentingly outspoken and courageous in defence of human freedoms facing systemic...

Tom Docherty's first collection begins 'not with a book / nor even an attentive ear', but with the elusive fragment of its title. The poems situate themselves in medias res, in the flux of...

In the mid-1950s a small but energetic group of young Turkish poets exploded into creative life. Their vivid, cosmopolitan experimentalism sent shock waves through the literary establishment. They...

John Goodby's sequence of sixty-seven sonnets read as a tribute to Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the author of the masterly The Sonnets(1964), updated and transplanted from New York City to South Wales...

Imagems 1 contains six statements by a European poet who challenges modernism and post-modernism alike and extends (beyond) both. Richard Berengarten takes as his twin cues a statement by his mentor...

In this sequel to images 1 (2013), the borders between poetic theory and practice blur, for some of these texts are prose-poems in themselves. While their themes are rooted in the here-now, their...

The poems of Immortal Wreckage attempt to gain purchase on our dystopia, the poet's eye passing like a lighthouse beam in the darkness, illuminating the landscape of immortal wreckage we bequeath to...

'In a Mist' is Geoffrey O'Brien's seventh collection of poems. It brings together scenes recovered from dream or experience, transmuted fragments of myth, passages retrieved from lost libraries and...

Set in the crumbling ruins of Yugoslavia, In a Time of Drought explores the images and realities of war, destruction and dictatorship, and of fertility, nurture and peace. The key figure is the...

In Five Eyes recovers two almost-lost collections of poems-Sound Surface & Surveillance and Compliance-published some 20 and 10 years ago, respectively, but which were written in the 1980s and early...

"This is poetry that goes direct to that other place and inhabits it. in possession of loss has a clear sparseness, almost a minimalism, that is also highly complex. Read as a single book-length...

In Spite of All is a memoir by a Portuguese poet, of another Portuguese poet: Alberto de Lacerda, an almost legendary figure in expatriate circles. Lacerda lived for many years in London, with...

The life of George Oppen (1908-1984) thwarted the expectations of a literary career. After publishing his first book at 26 with a preface by Ezra Pound, Oppen gave up poetry to become an organizer...

Through these poems set within a major south east Asian city Anderson weaves, against the rotting entablatures of monumental imperial ambition, slowly degraded aspirations of native and non-native...

In the final year of my 40s I shall abdicate responsibility for all my poems say, do, or be so they might get a life away from me. Join Simon Perril as he writes an ecstatically elastic 50th birthday...

"What pleasure, what an incredible joy, to enter into this stunning museum, this rich and mesmerizing collection. Marrin's first book is a requiem, a gorgeous and strange diorama of beauty and sorrow...

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire...

Indelible and deeply resonant, Linda Black's Interior demonstrates a poet at the peak of their powers. This collection constitutes a wondrous neo-Cartesian studio evoking an ars poetica that...

This book takes us along the river Stour through the Blackmore Vale, its identities, history, and natural world. The poems dive deep beneath the area's accrued social, cultural, and environmental...

Internal Rhyme is a sequence in four parts which continues the author's preoccupation with time and process as compositional elements. The book also explores how meaning can change when viewed from...

This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes...

Poets Kelvin Corcoran and Alan Halsey have often collaborated. In the past this brought us Your Thinking Tracts or Nations (West House 2001), A Horse That Runs: To & Fro with Wallace Stevens...

"Larkin's writing maps out and conceptually creates a scarce, minimally legible layer, and does so as a form of adoration or communion - the presence of scarcity makes its opposite, creative...

Linda Black's first collection consists entirely of prose poems. The author says of the collection: "I like how the form allows for an ending that isn't an ending - I don't believe in the idea of...

Deborah Meadows' fourth collection is a rigorous and spellbinding series of poems: innovative, experimental, and featuring such unexpected collisions as Luce Irigaray & Gilles Deleuze encountering...

Sean Burn's third full-length poetry collection ranges across art and sculpture, a Tuvan singer, man's impact on the Lake District, the disgrace of water privatisation, dance, America and Europe, and...

"Ralph Hawkins' poems... minimise 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...