Books published by Shearsman Books

In this accomplished first collection, Erica McAlpine draws truths from the everyday, meditating over contingency and luck and the often-vexed relationship we have to these things. The casual register of her verse belies its formal complexity.

Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the Trigram Press in London in 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting-edge poetry, was not only a self-taught, one-off maverick genius as a printer, typographer and book-designer, but also a superbly innovative language poet, whose own poetry tended to be obscured by his merits as a publisher.

Staunin Ma Lane isn't intended to be a comprehensive tour of classical [Chinese] poetry, though it does contain specimens of many of the major genres and styles, and it may serve as a --first primer. Note that the poetry is in the Scots: the English versions are there to help the non-Scots speaker.

Luisa Futoransky is a poet of lived experience above all; other voices inhabit the work, whether of friends, lovers, fellow travellers. Like her fiction, the poetry employs a direct language rooted in anecdote and reflection, while sometimes delighting in playful experimentalism. Hers are mosaic narratives, made of pieces, fragments.

Beyond the Sea brings together two book-length sequences first published in Mexico in the early years of the century, both taking their origins from Greece, a matter of central importance for the poet for many years -- the poems are odes and dithyrambs, with the spirit of one sequence being Apollonian, while the other is Dionysian.

Field is a collection of poems based on the close observation of a single field, glimpsed from a railway line near Penistone (South Yorkshire), which has been edited down to 60 short lyrical poems tracing seasonal and ecological changes as well as the relationship of people to place.

This volume starts from the key misrepresentation of orthodox poetry criticism, that the conservative is also the new, and sets out to define the British refusal to innovate. In the attempt to set up publicly accountable criteria for what counts as new, the book goes from the 1950s to the 1990s, identifying the stylistic innovations at each point.

This book, which accompanies the volumes published in the author's Selected Writings series, guides readers through the many-faceted poetic output of Richard Berengarten (formerly Richard Burns).

The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2016 features the usual mix of poetry from the UK, Ireland, North America and Australia, together with translations of Spanish and Swedish poets.

CLASP is an exercise in collective remembering - with a consciousness of memory work as also a process of selecting, forgetting and inventing.

Suspended between home and the city, which glows abstractly in the background, The Bridge is a timely book in this age when commutes and device-driven inwardness consumes so much of our days. At times casual and at times earnest, the attention to time and color, bodies and motion, bring heft to these svelte, track-like poems. -Kyle Dargan

Thomas Carew (1595-1640) was, with Robert Herrick, the finest poet of the "tribe of Ben", the poets who gathered around Ben Jonson in the taverns of Southwark in the early 17th century. This collected edition is the only complete edition of his poems available.

Well-known in the Arab world as a poet, essayist and translator Abdulkareem Kasid, born in Basra in 1946, escaped from Iraq in 1978 and went to live in Aden. He lived and worked in Damascus for ten years before settling in London with his wife and two children.

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, working with Heidegger's dictum that all things must be allowed their time in darkness.

As a village child in the German Palatinate, the author could never imagine the odyssey that was about to overtake him in the European turmoil of the mid-20th century. This book is illustrated throughout with the author's sketches and paintings of the locations and events that marked his fugitive childhood.

This volume brings together Roy Fisher's rare autobiographical sketches, the memoirs of his life as a jazz pianist, his tributes to musicians, writers, and painters of various kinds, a number of his book reviews, and comments on classic forebears such as Powys, Pound, Bunting, and the Black Mountain poets.

The poems in 'black seeds on a white dish' spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. These poems shift widely in form and tone, and seeds invoke the creative germ that spurs the metamorphoses occupying them.

A collection of poems that combines a control of rhetoric with myth-making skill. It includes figures such as the yellow-furred thike and its human cousin, or the countrywoman who answers the call of Maleficence.

Alvaro de Campos, along with Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro is one of Fernando Pessoa's most important poetic heteronyms and, like these fellow fictitious poets, made his first appearance in 1914. This book presents English translations of Campos' later work.

Helps Anglophone readers come to grips with the astonishing work of Fernando Pessoa.

Offer a smaller selection of the author's work, which will serve as an introduction for new readers, covering the period from 1965 to 2007. While most of the poems are drawn from the "Collected", a few other poems are also featured.

A companion to Lee Harwood's Selected Poems, this work offers a collection of interviews with the author by his long-time friend and admirer - himself also a Shearsman author. It gives the reader an opportunity to hear Harwood talking about poetry and about his own work.

A collection of poems which has a meditative quality.

A collection of poems.

Presents a collection of the Caeiro heteronym in English. This book accompanies introductions of Ricardo Reis and a memoir by Alvaro de Campos, two of Pessoa's other major poetic heteronyms, as well as a poem dedicated to Caeiro by C Pacheco.

Presents a collection of poems in English.

Offers a selection of poems, as well as the complete "Lady of the Broom" sequence, together with selections from the author's first two books.

Presents selections from the "Journals" - part diary, part autobiography, and part commonplace book - of the poet RF Langley, covering a 35-year period. This book gives an idea of the author's other writings, which run in parallel with his poetry and sometimes provide the underpinnings for it.

Beginning as one of the cool, post-modernist Slovak "aNesthetic" and "Text" poets using a matter-of-fact language with precise visual perceptions, Maria Ferencuhova work has expanded its range of concerns from urban life to a wider perception of the individual in a world damaged by history and threatened by environmental destruction.