Books published by Shearsman Books

A guidebook to Lisbon for English-speaking visitors written by the author whose typescript of the book was discovered amongst his papers after his death.

I've played, watched and loved football all my life. So I thought I'd write about it. My original intention was to write a poetic history of football, from the creation to the present day. The poems here are those of the original twenty that made it through the selection process and got into the first eleven. (Steve Ely)

Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified longing for the passing ghost of European idealism.

This book contains 162 poems: the 154 canonical Collected Poems, presented by year and within each year's order of composition and/or first printing, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems interspersed chronologically among them. Only one of his rejected, early poems has been included, 'Ode and Elegy of the Street,' used here as a kind of overture.

Ruben Dario, the Nicaraguan poet and founder of the literary movement known as Modernismo - somewhat akin to French Symbolisme - died over a century ago, but his influence on Spanish-language poetry remains immense. Jorge Luis Borges declared: 'Dario was an innovator in everything ... We can truly call him the Liberator.'

These poems entwine round such matters as how roots move as they grow or how feet plant themselves, why a forest admits lanes and lines but obstructs them into shelter, how a tree might relate to all it isn't...

George Messo's fifth book of poems is a richly inventive, candid reflection on the individual nature of mental distress; a darkly playful, bold new collection from one of Shearsman's most reticent poets.

'Enraptured by the versioning bug,' Sheppard confesses of his variations of Petrarch 'I was off on one.' With comic verve, he refunctions some fine sonneteers: Petrarch, and those of The English Strain: Wyatt and Surrey.

Features poetry by poets from the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, Mexico and Germany.

Includes poetry from Susana Araujo, Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Andy Brown, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Patricia Farrell, Fergal Gaynor, Mark Goodwin, Catherine Hales, Ralph Hawkins, Luisa A Igloria, David Kennedy, philip kuhn, Rachel Lehrman, Tony Lopez, Rupert M Loydell, Jill Magi, Sophie Mayer, and Janet Sutherland.

Features poetry by C J Allen, James Bell, Peter Carpenter, Richard Deming, Tamara Fulcher, Becky Gibson, Lucy Hamilton, Peter Hughes, Maryrose Larkin, Simon Marsh, Chris McCabe, Kate Schmitt, Aidan Semmens, Tupa Snyder, Nathan Thompson and translations from Galician, Hungarian, French and Spanish.

Features poetry by Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Richard Burns, Kelvin Corcoran, M T C Cronin, Mark Goodwin, Anthony Hawley, Matthew Jarvis, rob mclennan, Valeria Melchioretto, Mary Michaels, Erin Moure, John Phillips, Elizabeth Robinson, Peter Robinson, Geofrrey Squires, Sasha Steenson, and Janet Sutherland.

Specialising in work in the modernist tradition and international in scope, this journal of contemporary poetry features work by Anne Blonstein, Christopher Middleton, Robert Saxton, Richard Burns, Zoe Skoulding, and Robert Sheppard, among others. It also features translations from Romanian, German, French and Chinese.

A book-sized double-issue of Shearsman magazine, marking a significant shift in the magazine's development. Features original poetry and work in translation.

Presents a second double-issue containing a range of original works and translations. Among those featured in this edition are: Louis Armand, Maurice Scully, Rochelle Ratner, Elizabeth Treadwell, Isobel Armstrong, Carrie Etter, Harry Guest, Ilhan Berk, Boris Poplavsky, Cesar Vallejo, Jose Kozer, and Yves Bonnefoy.

Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009) authored poetry, fiction, drama, and life writing; she was also a visual artist, musician, and translator. From the early 1980s, Mendelssohn composed 19 poetry collections and published in journals receptive to her experimental, charged lyrics, and retained a marginal, if constant, presence in the poetry community.

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2017, featuring poetry from across the English-speaking world plus translations from Japanese, Dutch and Polish.

Tripping Daylight, Peter Dent's latest collection, finds its unlikely protagonist connecting (or attempting to connect) the experiences of a 'life lived' with a welter of convenient 'truths' - known or suspected - and which may be seen as arguable every step of the way.

The Gestaltbunker encapsulates the diversity of Paul A. Green's output during his long subterranean career. His engagement with nuclear apocalypse, global melt-down and the excesses of media landscaping is modulated through surreal inscapes and an intensifying torsion of language.

"Many of these poems engage with 'love', as a perception, as a verb, but to say so underestimates them. Visceral, tangential, with a genuine sense of belief / refusal to believe. You might think that you've arrived but, most of all, how interesting it is trying to get there." (Lucy Burnett)

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2011, and one which marks the 30th anniversary of the press and the magazine.

Poetry by Isobel Armstrong, Tom Bamford, Geraldine Clarkson, Mary Coghill, Susan Connolly, Jen Crawford, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Alison Fraser, Anne Gorrick, Harry Guest, Ben Hickman, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Gary Hotham, Norman Jope, Nina Karacosta, John Latta, Maitreyabandhu, David Miller, Paul O'Prey, Sonia Overall, Simon Perril, and others.

Offers the reader a historical preview of the three fundamental components or concerns of human life on which "Opus 3" is based, while exemplifying the various sorts of poetry and prose to be found in it.

Includes a long poem by the author, "The Long Habit of Living", together with his loose reworking of Mayakovsky's classic long poem "Cloud in Pants", and some loose translations of Brecht, and a number of poems 'in the manner of Brecht'.

A collection of poems in which the Middle East, both real and imagined, forms the background. It features themes such as: silence, destruction, resistance, and endurance.

Includes poems that concern with the nature, from both a perceptual and ontological perspective, of continuing and intrinsic identities.

Discusses about voices taking each other for granted, saying 'etc etc' and not listening, nevertheless turning out to duet. This title contains double- and multi-columned poems, where each column can be read in its own right (or left), and also read across the columns.

Features poems that speak of specific narratives and landscapes, past and present, as in Cardiff, or Spain. This work tells individual stories, like the hill farmer leaving his farm, or the Navy diver encountering his own unexploded feelings.

Offers tales of families, of growing up, and of the world around us, seen with uncommonly fresh eyes.

A collection of poems.