Books published by Shearsman Books

Presents poetry which is distinguished by its concentrated syntax, linguistic complexity, and an insistent moral and spiritual engagement.

A collection of essays, some of which are sourced from the magazine, "The Paper", covering walking and poetry, and also forms of elegy and the spiritual and how they interact with poetry. This book includes contributions from Andrea Brady, Ian Davidson and Zoe Skoulding, John Hall, Sarah Law, Peter Middleton, Jennifer Moxley, and Stuart Mugridge.

A collection by American poet, that on the surface appears to document a European vacation but undermines conventional notions about the meaning of a holiday.

Some of the most challenging and rewarding contemporary English-language poets, both avant-garde and traditional, appropriate public language and contest the grounds of political and aesthetic meaning. This book contains essays that sets out a number of different approaches to this compelling and paradoxical field.

Contains short, lyrical poems.

A collection of poems that explores memory, art and language, asking above all what it is to be human.

Presents the locale of Weiss' Marat/Sade as a play of shadows, light, beauty and intensity that enacts Galician being and the agonies of its history, and of a woman writer in whom this history is chiselled.

A collection of poems that conveys the ever present drama between otherness and unity. It fuses history and nature.

Features a sequence of poems offered to the author's friend, the artist Paresh Chakraborty. The sequence of 37 short lyrics demonstrates that Andrew Brewerton's quiet poetic voice is a powerful one.

Explores the difficulties associated with having your heart in Europe and your life in Japan, across the shadowy terrains of a world grown decidedly more at risk, dangerous, and violent. This work contains poetry that celebrates all it can by means of the poet's rhythm, dexterity, and eye for the energized processes of landscape and atmosphere.

A collection of poems, featuring such unexpected collisions as Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze encountering Zen philosophy.

Brings together a number of scattered poems and prose-poems. A companion to "The Llyn Writings", this book also contains works such as the "Alstonefield Part VI", Carpathian poems relating to The Dance at Mociu, and experimental poems such as "Small Square Plots" and "Floating Verses".

If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If poems are engaged in the language-game of giving information, how should that information be arranged? This sequence of poems offers a number of possible and less possible answers to such questions.

A collection of poems, which explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught between the quotidian and the uncanny. Presented in a language that is elegant and oneiric, the poems attempt to recast the daily ambiguities of living with others.

Talks about poetry and sexual violence, the balkanization of the art and ways to resist it, and techniques of poetry and how they engage with the circumstances of life. This book, made up of twelve interviews, also talks of the connections between the author's own poetry, literary criticism, translations, aphoristic writings, and ancillary work.

A collection of works, written by the author of "Switching and Main Exchange", "Pauper Estate", "Anxiety Before Entering a Room" and "The Imagination in Geometry", as well as the critical volumes, "The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry" and "Centre and Periphery".

A fox hears voices. A dogfox of indeterminate gender careers round desert USA, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in stolen cars and on foot. A barkingdog talks out loud and sings. A demotic fox listens and listens. A coyotefox lies. A coyote speaks truth. A kitfox reads the signs and tunes the car radio. Kitsune eats and drinks.

Although heavily indebted with the aesthetics of modernismo, Cesar Vallejo's early volume escapes the merely decorative, and includes poems of indubitable originality, harbingers of his later masterpieces. This book includes lyrics of existential angst and romantic frustrations that appear amid descriptions of family life and Andean landscapes.

A collection of poetry.

"No Man's Land" is Tupa Snyder's first collection. Born in Calcutta, she has studied at universities in India, the United States and England. This book includes a large proportion of work presented in 2007 to the University of Exeter for the award of a PhD, and demonstrates the arrival of a confident voice that straddles cultural divides.

Offers poems by Alexander Barclay, Humfrey Gifford, Richard Carew, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, George Peele, Anne Dowriche, Joseph Hall, John Ford, William Browne, Robert Herrick, William Strode, Sidney Godolphin, Mary, Lady Chudleigh, John Gay, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Presents a collection of poems by a leading English-language experimental poet.

A collection which uses poetic tonalities and phrasings to disrupt the chronology of past and present.

Features lyric poems containing an array of characters that personify twenty-first century language, found on adverts, shopfronts, train tickets.

A collection of poems from 'Stone settings and longstones', a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monuments on Exmoor. It reflects the fragile, elusive and disputed existence of these sites, as well as the enduring landscape which surrounds them.

Tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the intifadah.

Part dictionary, part travel diary, part historical record, this work narrates a story of fragmented shifts in identity - cultural, gendered and sexual. It addresses the complications of translation, not only linguistic translation, but also the multiple ways we translate ourselves when we are away from whatever we might call "home."

Traces an initiation into the mysteries and continuities of history and biology brought on by motherhood.

A work of poetry covering the period 1980-1994 in terms of composition, and several further years of revision.

Includes a collection of poems by a naturalist and expert on birds of prey on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied in Britain, North America, Iceland and Siberia. This book also contains some field drawings of the birds.