Books published by Shearsman Books

"Diagrams are meant to be clear, precise, serious and informative but in David Greenslade's eyes they become ambiguous, playful and misleading. harbouring deep, mysteries. Read at your peril: you will never be able to view a diagram in the same way again." (Donald Norman, author of Psychology of Everyday Things)

Set in 'South-Wets Wales' Illennium is a cut-up sonnet sequence which draws on recent theories about the social role of shame, as it kaleidoscopically traces the trajectory of a romantic attachment across a tangle of shifting friendships.

The first of two double-issues of Shearsman magazine for 2012.

A collection in English by one of the most significant poets and novelists of his generation in Norway.

"Flags" was the only volume of poetry published by the Russian emigre poet Boris Poplavsky (1903-1935) during his own lifetime. A significant Surrealist volume, it is one of the 'lost' creations of a man who has been called the greatest of the Russian emigre poets. This book opens a window onto a fascinating and unfairly neglected figure.

The insidious peril that haunts these pages appears in various guises against a backdrop of France, Germany, Greece, the USA and the UK. Stalker is a collection of prose poems in which the narrator attempts to make sense of everyday experience, turning to Rilke, Van Gogh, Steinbeck and others in her quest for understanding.

A poem by one of Ireland's most radical experimental woman poet.

Presents the author's first collection since his "Collected Poems" and the analysis memoir, "Dreaming Arrival", published by Shearsman in 2008.

Explores ideas of belonging and displacement. This work weaves a narrative that suggests both the intoxication and dangers of believing in Promised Lands. It shows the life of a city that is complicated and enriched for being at once both sacred and profane.

Presents 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.

Born in Dublin in 1954, the author spent some time in Spain and the UK, and then lived and worked in the mid-west of Ireland. This collection brings together his seven published volumes.

Sir Thomas Wyatt is remembered today as one of the most important poets in the English language, and as the man who brought the sonnet into English, with imitations and re-creations of Petrarch. His work is broader than that, however, and he showed himself to be a fine elegist and satirist as well as a lyric poet of the very first order.

Features poems which are ostensibly about pirates yet the subtext has a satirical impulse which is fuelled by surrealism and a delight in upending the apple cart. The author revels in entertaining juxtapositions and in breathless passages of 'stream-of-consciousness' rant, which work wonderfully on the page or performed live.

Features a poetry collection formed from a mass of influences but most prominently from three classic Japanese anime: "Ghost in the Shell", "Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2", and "Neon Genesis Evangelion".

Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, this title is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling.

A work in English by the German poet, translator, editor, and publisher.

A book of longing. It examines what it means to be fully alive to the world.

While the Western world was declaring war on an abstraction, the author had been drawing up peace terms with a host of them. What came from them were promptly anthologized in "The Boodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations". This work features extended reflections that look out on the world and see a wounded head bandaged in clouds.

Takes off from a palindrome quoted in Anne Michael's novel, "Fugitive Pieces": 'Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?'

Features poems, in which the reader carries her 'lone heartbeat' while sifting through the confusion of a psychically, physically rubbled world.

Contains poems that are lyrical, weaving images of loss and of love, of grief and light, of language and nature.

Contains songs that have never been and never will be sung; anti-lyric and narrative poems for which a musical equivalent has been constructed; and text written specifically for musical purposes.

A collection of poems covering details of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials.

Mary, Lady Chudleigh was a confidante of John Dryden and a leading figure amongst the women writers of her day. In many ways a proto-feminist, while still a provincial aristocrat and devout Protestant, Lady Chudleigh's work shows many of the apparent contradictions of the early modern era. This work features a selection of her work.

Includes the usual mix of English-language poetry, by writers such as Lee Harwood and Christopher Middleton, together with translations fro Spanish, German, Italian and Danish poets.

Includes poetry by authors from many parts of the world, English work, and work in translation, from Dutch, Spanish, Finnish & Turkish.

A collection of poems that make up a kind of verse novel concerning the story of the medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard, seen through the prism of Ovid's "Metamorphoses".

Contains four narratives of life in Manila under Japanese occupation in World War 2.

A collection of Claudio Rodriguez's work in English offering the complete poems, in a bilingual edition.

Includes poetry free and formal that features eggs, woods, football, nations, smoke, birds (common, other), tigers, murders, curtains, rivers, chromosomes, love (varieties of), Welles (Orson), pints, bras, partings, heartings, breakings, namings, and diverse other matters.