Books published by Shearsman Books

Mexico is one of the major centres of Hispanic poetry-something which is perhaps more visible from the USA than from Britain, but nonetheless something that needs to be realised by anyone who cares about contemporary poetry in Spanish, or indeed, contemporary poetry of any kind.

Features "Arcana" and other poems, together with some shorter lyrics.

Centred on Australian suburbia in the 60s, 70s and 80s, this book explores the inner and outer tensions of families, friendships and society whilst charting the sleaze, mayhem and humanity that go to make a nation's life.

An English translation of the author's lyrical texts.

A book-length survey of an Argentine poet's work in English.

Presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of the author's experience of psychoanalysis. This book looks not only at the way 'therapy' affects writing, but also at how the writing may affect the process of the therapy itself.

A collection of Leicestershire poet, Mark Goodwin.

Consists entirely of prose poems.

Includes poems that usher readers 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 city striated with cinema becomes a glacier, and where a glacier sits in the red velvet seats and sees herself as a star.

Supersedes the author's "Selected Poems, The Purpose of the Gift".

Features a world of surreal identities, of wonders, disturbances, angels, fire sermons and celebrations where animals and people speak with both words and silences.

A collection of responses to J H Prynne's poetry by his readers.

A collection of responses to J H Prynne's poetry by his readers.

Presents the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with a culture of violence and war. This book intends to restore a sense of the original strangeness of American literature and culture by pushing the boundaries of the essay form.

Paul Evans (1945-1991) was a significant member of a group of radical new poets that appeared in England in the late 1960s, but his work remains scattered through a number of small-press publications from 1970-1987. This title presents a selection of Evans' work from throughout his career.

"For Larkin, landscape is not so much a thing as a process, a kind of prosody marked by opening (which the prose poem enacts through clearings of verse) and by colonizing, to a rhythm not necessarily human. It is a process whose articulations colonize the poet-forester's abandoned grammars." - Jonathan Skinner

Centres specifically on the area of East Kent where Australian poet Laurie Duggan lives. It features excursions and interludes elsewhere in Britain, the Continent and North Africa.

Demarcates the literary landscape.

Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish to use as if whiting them out - the remaining words stood in the same relationship to each other as they did in the original poem. This collection of poems uses that method.

Introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet . This book presents the extant poems and fragments, as well as the record of their reception and preservation.

A collection of poems and prose poems that navigate the vulnerabilities revealed in relationships, only to abandon these in a wandering search for new encounters and new truths.

A collection of poems that depict the author's personal encounter with her landscape. It celebrates the famous archaeological monuments of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange alongside local landmarks: the Maiden Tower, the seawall at Baltray and the discovery in a back garden of a cobbled garden dating from the early nineteenth century.

Written by a poet whose works minimize the gap of 'constructive effort' between the basic seeking of pleasure and pleasurable sensations, and the 'mediated' pleasure of the poem.

Presents a book-length poem that appears to confront specifically Jewish themes and can also be read and thought - through in non-denominational ways, not least because at its core lie questions concerning how we (individually and collectively) might still learn to become ourselves in peaceful relationship with others.

Includes poems that play with the expectations we have of the form, as much as they use the sonnet sequence's traditional power to switch viewpoint or attention poem by poem. This title wonders whether compassion is still one of the passions and tests the strengths of what the poems call the human covenant against human unfinish.

Assuming the form of postcards authored by an 'alien' of unknown nationality, ethnicity, and gender, addressing a variety of people and organizations (political figures, multinational corporations, people in public toilets, et al), this title offers a document of fear and loneliness in the 21st century US.

From Anglo-Saxon diphthongs to that mysterious three-dimensional mirrored state of being, the enantiomorph, from Aquinas to Holderlin to California, this book takes us on a journey through the tissues of memory and the patchwork of images that make up our contemporary world of learning, consuming and creating.

Includes poems that point to devastating historical events.

Presents a study of contemporary British poetry. This work offers studies of some thirteen modern poets, together with a number of general essays giving an overview of events and trends in British poetry.

Presents work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material. This book includes texts that form an extended record of self and world, their focus twisting to reflect thought and language process.