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The work in Beyond the Fire does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own territory and its own terms. Some poems are straightforward narratives, while others repeat spells and castings. Many are figural; some are classical; some even aspire to anonymity.

Angwin's interest, broadly, is in a Zen take on psychogeography, and Bardo is a book of transitions-inner, outer and usually both; a series of journey meditations recorded in prose poems and poetry.

There are those inhabitants of islands who say they "'fraid sea", meaning they have an abiding respect for the restless ocean and for whatever lies unseen past the horizon. 'Sea have no back door' is the phrase they use to indicate the idea of no return, of being swallowed up in the vastness of a world outside the shore that is a natural boundary.

"What a poem must do to justify its existence is to surprise us with its necessary inevitability, which is what these poems do piece by piece, one by one, and together." -Geof Huth

A Neon Tryst is a collection of ekphrastic poems featuring the films L'Eclisse (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni); Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer); and Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman). Though divided in three separate sections by film, the collection stands as one, cohesive piece.

This poetry unhinges the sensible cultural body - any given order of relations among meanings and encounters - and activates other oscillations of the sensible, which might chime with acts of love and political subjects resuturing what are given to be facts.

A gay, light-hearted type, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smudged, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1958 Jaguar D-type, El Cid.

Rupert Loydell, along with many others, has long been fascinated by the combination of sea, light, people and painting that constitute St Ives. This anthology deals with these themes, along with tourism & trade, myth and the nature of creativity itself.

Features poems that were written in Cuba in the fiftieth year of the revolution; in India working with dying destitutes and recovering from tuberculosis; and travelling up and down the spine of the Americas and into the heart of Europe on the trail of soldiers, artists and monks.

An anthology of women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by 24 poets who either live and work in the UK or are of British origin. With representation from writers born in the 1930s all the way to writers born in the 1980s, it gives an overview of work that is too frequently consigned by critics to the margins.

Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to a realisation that "landscape writing" need not be confined to literary tourism, and to the injection of radical poetic styles. This is the first volume to engage with this new wave of writing.

Considering time and process as compositional elements, this book explores how meaning can change when viewed from different perspectives.

Arc & Sill brings together all of david LLoyd's chapbooks from a 30-year period for his first full-length collection.

"Phillips would have us look no further than the poem itself for the primary matter of its own accordant recognition as fact. So that to write is to read ourselves into being alive in forms we have no further proof of than the act of the poem's own declaration." -Patrick James Dunagan

'Lion' is a meditation on the role of kinship in the development of cultural identity and the importance of rites of passage as cultural artifacts in the modern world.

The Pursuit of Happiness collects shorter poems written during and after the composition of Crab & Winkle, and concludes with 'The Nathan Papers', an earlier and longer work written in Australia. The poems address the state of the art and the state of the nation, investigating the spaces left for pleasure in this new dark age.

"These poems disclose a poet's rich relationship to the natural world by stripping away, by letting a raw objectivist lyric scrape off any rhetorical surface to discover the details beneath. This happens in almost every line, every phrase-so much so that finally his individual words seem to do it by themselves." (Tim Allen)

A double-issue of "Shearsman" magazine.

1557 saw the publication of this volume: the first printed anthology of contemporary poetry in English. The book is built on a foundation of two recently-deceased poets, Wyatt and Surrey, who had by their example given English poetry a new direction, above all with the introduction of the sonnet, but also with the invention of blank verse.

The most striking image of extreme eros and extreme pain is that of Christ on the Cross. This book of 77 poems by a Bulgarian author navigates between these two extremes. It provides the reader with many elements of Bulgarian culture and the Orthodox tradition.

"Notebook of Signs" is the first 'notebook' is a collection of four separate 'notebooks', which demonstrates the author's mastery in the area of short lyrics.

Following the publication of "Tottel's Miscellany" in 1557, a number of other such miscellanies appeared. In 1593, however, a gentleman known only by his initials (RS) published this compilation. It is almost certain that the Phoenix of the title was Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). This book dedicates the first three elegies to him.

Presents poems that are an extravaganza of retarded American enthusiasm, deftly rendered. The author loves the Fuck yeaaaah!'s our culture hoots just before it drives its rental car off a cliff. Her details are so spot on, their mere presence relieves us of the need for contrived, 'poetic' resolutions.

In 2008 Shearsman published Elisabeth Bletsoe's most recent collection, "Landscape from a Dream". This title offers a companion volume containing all-or almost all-of her previously published work. It contains a number of short pieces, and revolves around three major sequences.

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"Englands Helicon" (1600) differs from earlier miscellanies in representing a particular style of writing - the now fashionable pastoral, with kits origins in "Virgil", but actually adopted from continental models. This book offers translations from "Montemayor's Diana", a pastoral in verse and prose.

In 1999, living in southern California, Carrie Etter began a series of poems focusing on our cultural obsession with creating beginnings and origins-a new day, a new chapter, a fresh start-called 'Divining for Starters'. Twelve years and a move to England later, here are the best poems from that work in progress.