Bücher veröffentlicht von Shearsman Books

A new collection from award-winning poet Will Stone, whose poems have been described as haunting, beautiful, savage, lyric and visionary, inventive, searing yet poignant, mesmerising and original.

Stigmate / Vrage appeared in a bilingual edition in 2002 and here receives its first complete English translation. "My identity is Gezim, my body is my fatherland," says the author.

Alfred Celestine was born in Los Angeles in 1949 and came to London in 1977, remaining there until his death in 2009. He published two books of poetry: Confessions of Nat Turner (The Many Press, 1978) and Passing Eliot in the Street (Nettle Press, 2003).

In these poems, words are a scalpel that probes the shifting sands of meaning. Themes of identity, communication, love, loss and isolation are peeled pack to reveal, with devastating precision, both the deficiencies and the power of language: words that can heal or save; words that paralyse and attack.

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.

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.