Bücher veröffentlicht von Shearsman Books

In 2014, Miriam Olson died at the age 80, and after nearly 50 years of marriage. She had suffered from Alzheimer's for some years and Toby became her principal carer. This is a memoir of that period, a story of love and frustration, remembering and forgetting. Miriam is The Other Woman of the title - a woman other than the one she once was.

"Poems traverse geographical locations, from Trinidad to other Caribbean islands and as far as Iceland. Bagoo explores daily life, love, art, history, literature, myth, popular culture, ritual and the molten ground of memory, bringing together douens, lionfish, Auden, Mozart, Caravaggio and Tchaikovsky, among other figures. Bring the fire, burn."

A true cabinet of curiosities, these poems usher in a seemingly endless list of what's been lost: Marrin, along with her parade of ghosts of dead counters, explorers, and collectors, chronicles our demise. Incognitum is an extended fever, an archive, a getting-it-all-down-before the world is gone." -Cynthia Cruz

"This exceptional poet hits a new height with each new book, and the view from this one is great!" - Cole Swensen

The Man Who Has Everything is an unlikely anti-hero, adrift in a world of instant gratification, momentary experiences and instant answers, in contrast to the music, art, books and conversation he prefers.

"Hawkins' method is to eliminate whatever is not interesting, and his poetic line is as rapid, sporadic, shifting, polyvalent, slight and self-reversing as consciousness itself. [...] The removal of conventional connections leaves a vast space for originality: his style is located in the edits, the jumps." -Andrew Duncan

A first full-length collection in the UK for Pete Smith, a Canadian poet born in Coventry but resident in Kamloops, BC, since 1974. In the UK and Canada he worked as a psychiatric nurse with intellectually challenged people in institutional and community settings.

The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2014 includes new poetry by Peter Boyle, M.T.C. Cronin, Ray DiPalma, Tim Dooley, Michael Farrell, Mark Goodwin, Anne Gorrick, Jeremy Hooker, Norman Jope, Kent MacCarter, Alasdair Paterson, Peter Robinson, Nathan Shepherdson, Scott Thurston, Cristina Viti, Heidi Williamson and several others.

'A Ritual Landscape' sets out Aidan Semmens' stall from the start of this, his third full-length collection. These are poems that 'have legs'-that continue the journey outward begun in A Stone Dog and The Book of Isaac, and elaborate the argument and project of one of our most ambitious and accomplished poets. What runs through this book, like Brighton rock, is a traditional, yet questioning, and taut lyricism, a poetry of argument in the voice of smouldering outrage. The voice of these poems inhabits the place of post-industrial landscape in a way not as effectively revisited and examined since the poetry of Roy Fisher in, 'a place of gathering /an enclosure of power and spirit, ' in a 'slow recovery of knowledge'

Obsequy For Lost Things consists of three prose-poetry sequences. The first two share the setting of the Thames estuary. They all share, however, like the author's previous collection of prose-poetry sequences (from Skylight Press) Interlocutors of Paradise, a concern with history and the psychology of colonialism.

Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically Helen's supposed deceit and infidelity.

Different Kinds of Music follows Timothy "Westy" Westmont through six episodes from his childhood and youth, through his experiences as an archivist and a thief, to encounters with William Faulkner's bear in St. Louis, Hemingway's lingering ghost at Walloon Lake in Michigan, and Phillip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus in Columbus, Ohio itself.

In Sea Table Kelvin Corcoran brings it all back home. Not that it was ever very far away, but he has been writing a lot of poetry concerning Greece. Greece, both place and stories, was a lens onto our present condition and its depths, and through that focus he developed an essentially lyrical field as the basis for a move towards larger forms.

This is the Libretto to Nicola LeFanu's opera, Tokaido Road. In 1832 the young Hiroshige sets out on Japan's great Eastern Sea Road, the Tokaido, linking Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The paintings he creates along the way reveal the secrets of a hidden country.

Martyn Crucefix's new poems vividly evoke the landscapes of northern England and - in a sequence of sonnets inspired by the writing of Rosalia de Castro - the north west of Spain. But more than place, they explore the ways in which we inhabit time - how we are harmed and healed by it, how we deny, ignore, sublimate, repeat or reprise it.

Arrivals & Departures is a slim collection of poems by Robert vas Dias, a follow-up to his full-length Shearsman collection, Still * Life and Other Poems of Art and Artifice.

This exciting and readable book presents the fifties and sixties as a crucible of new departures, asking what remains and continues from those decades into the cultural present. It takes the form of a series of thematic essays each of which discusses the work of an individual or group of novelists.

This slim collection gathers together John Seed's poems written since the publication of his New and Collected.

The figure of ra-t slithers through these pages like the Zelig of London Town - an ocular witness at every juncture of its history. His split name makes him a fractured and contradictory creature. Always recognisable he is also hesitant and obscure, not unlike this text which at every turn employs discontinuity and slippage as formal strategies.

Helena Eriksson is a Swedish poet. strata was her sixth volume of poetry, an enigmatic book-length work, published in 2004.

Claus von Rosen was born into the German-speaking landed nobility of the Baltic countries, then part of the Russian Empire. [...] With the arrival of World War 2, and the Soviet invasion of Estonia, he was drafted into the German army, serving on the Eastern front. There, he was captured and imprisoned in the Gulag until being freed in 1955.

This is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the work of Trevor Joyce, one of the Ireland's most innovative poets of the past 50 years. Contributions from: Lucy Collins, Eric Falci, Fergal Gaynor, John Goodby, Fanny Howe, David Lloyd, Peter Manson, Niamh O'Mahony, Marthine Satris, Geoffrey Squires, Keith Tuma and Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas.

This is Michael Smith's first collection since his Collected Poems of 2009, and is an elegiac volume. As the author says: "Let me try to define prayer as I am using it here. It is a voice in the head, ours and not ours. It speaks in words we scarcely understand. Unstoppable, unless distracted by our quotidian pursuits."

Comprising work from the early 1970s onwards, Reassembling Still is by far the largest and most comprehensive collection of David Miller's poetry, and includes all of his poetry that he wishes to keep, with the exceptions of the ongoing Spiritual Letters project and his visual poems.