Bücher veröffentlicht von Shearsman Books

The second issue of Shearsman for 2019 features poetry by, among others, Annemarie Austin, Alison Brackenbury, Andrew Duncan, Chris Emery, Gerrie Fellows, Lucy Hamilton, Alasdair Paterson, John Phillips, John Seed, Robert Sheppard, Andrew Taylor and Tamar Yoseloff & translations from Lithuanian and Dutch.

Caks (1901-50) is Latvia's leading mid-20th-century poet, an early adopter of modern literary tendencies from wider Europe, and one of the first really urban poets in the Latvian language - until his eruption onto the scene, Latvian poetry had been grounded in rural life, reflecting the preponderance of Latvian speakers in the countryside.

Collected Sonnets gathers nine main sequences from a 50-year span. It includes takes on poems from other languages and a large number of previously unpublished texts. Praised by Peter Porter for richly re-working Elizabethan elements, Selerie's sonnets have appealed equally to readers with a modernist bent.

Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (1889-1959) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. This is the first major collection of his poetry in English. "A man for whom language has been all that language can be: sound and sign, inert trace and wizardry, a clockwork mechanism and a living thing." (Octavio Paz)

With Brecht, Benn, Bobrowski and Celan, Peter Huchel is one of a handful of essential post-war poets in the German language. A precise observer of natural phenomena, Huchel is above all a realist whose metaphors take us deep into the social and historical landscape, into zones of devastation and despair, the zero-hour of isolation.

"Unforgettable poems that, on the verge of tales and fables, drag the reader toward a universe of screened images, like 'pollen clouds in the slant evening light'." -Antonio Ortega, El Pais

I bring together in Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark a wide selection of poems written about London over the past two centuries by Spanish poets. Sometimes London is the protagonist, sometimes the setting, and sometimes it represents an outside space which the poet interiorises, but it always remains a real place...

Trees become myriad versions (instalments) of themselves without verging onto an unsensing multiplicity as they traverse partially resistant or patient terrains: so these poems explore contrasting tree-states, as sticks or joints, filters of directional light or self-submerged hedges, which are all manners of contraction, extension, mediation, shareable expression."Larkin's 'theological poetics' assumes a world in which we could be said to be 'short of nothing', however 'scarcely' this is apprehended." -Simon Collings "With relation to the holy as subtext, Trees Before Abstinent Ground continues Peter Larkin's dense and enticing meditations with trees. Larkin's poems lure the reader to attend to the incarnational alterity of trees. Through saturated language, the reader encounters trees' vertical customs and feral horizons, as they engage with the habit and culture of light." -Anne Elvey

This mystical verse dives repeatedly into the given, and discovers there a world of symbol and - perhaps above all - movement. It is not Gerard Manley Hopkins's search for 'inscape', but instead an apprehension that from moment to moment forms itself into symbolic codes - and then releases those codes into the material, sensual world.

Laressa Dickey's Syncopations continues the thematic explorations of her earlier work-family, memory, the American South-but displays a depth and richness all its own. [...] Readers are treated to a poet in full command of her art who is willing to share the benefits of her hard-won knowledge, making this a truly essential collection.

Horse-Man inhabits at times surreal, at times mystical territory, where the human and nonhuman merge and blend. Part keening, part celebration, Horse-Man immerses the reader in a powerful advocacy of sacred meaning and - fiercely, bravely - asks what it means to be whole, a fully embodied human being.

Thomas Kling (1957-2005) died at the age of 47, already recognised as one of the most important German-language poets of his time. He had come to wide recognition in the 1980s, gaining renown for performances of his work and was one of the main forces behind the renovation of contemporary German poetry that occurred at that time.

Throughout his career, Harry has written occasional poems, haiku, squibs and jests, and this little collection brings together a range of them that will delight his readers.

"This is large poetry, deep poetry, poetry that concerns itself with the great human themes. This is poetry that can change your life." -Brian Holton

Word and Stone is questioning poetry, which explores the ground between language that seeks meaning, and the obduracy of matter, and between life and what seems dead. Its concern is with a sense of the sacred, and the possibility of renewing words such as 'spirit' and 'soul' in a materialist culture.

Like any self-respecting cloud, the words of this, Dent's latest volume, have occasion to slip into and out of focus as well as flit between mean-ings. To recognise such moments is to ensure we are party to an intrigue more about delight and imagination than dissecting (or, heaven help us, directing) a life.

This is a new edition of Kelvin Corcoran's second collection of poems, from 1986.

"Caleshu's new collection is magnificent." -Luke Kennard

Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from most of his previous volumes, giving British and American readers a chance to catch up with work that has only previously appeared in Australia, and also includes recent poetry-lyrical, political and in memoriam.

"[...] a word-smithy that is now owned by an incorruptible woman of letters. Her words are in open view and in plain hearing for the eyes and ears of people who value every single tongue but not the forked one." -Christopher Ricks, Dead Ground 2018-1918

Death Sentences is Toby Olson's first major collection since Darklight (2007), and many of the poems are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died in 2014. Many of the other poems stand as celebrations of what is observed, without metaphor or other literary devices intervening. The four series are highly structured experiments with the sentence.

"The majority of these poems exist thanks to an extended convalescence that ...forced me to become quiet, solitary and silent. ... The first hermits set out alone but eventually found each other in the middle of the desert ... nomadism is not a refutation of the centre, but the recognition that life moves and we need to be quick to catch it.

Robert Sheppard has been at the forefront of innovative poetry in the UK since the 1980s. This wide-ranging volume celebrates his writings, offering extensive examinations of his work. Including contributions from major contemporaries and younger scholars, this book situates the remarkable writing life of one of Britain's most imaginative poets.

The first double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2019 contains original poetry from the UK, the USA, Australia and India, together with a number of translations from two Russian poets of the early 20th century.

Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense of living that change-its rhythms and patterns, its peculiar commitments, its urgencies and pleasures as well as its inequalities, tensions, and fateful "unsaids."

The title poem of Islander is an essential definition: not rooted in landlocked blood and soil but connected by sea and distance, and the returning tides of Scotland, the archipelagos of New Zealand and the islands of Oceania. Here is a poet attuned to the ancient laws of movement and sensitive to the uncertainties, the vulnerable truths.

In 1928, shortly after his marriage to Ximena Amunategui, and after meeting Douglas Fairbanks, Huidobro began writing his version of the Cid legend as a novel. The result is a highly readable version of the story, that casts aside the style of romantic 19th-century historical fiction in favour of more modern approaches and cinematic influences.