OUR LATEST BOOK RELEASES
Welcome to the Shearsman Books website. Shearsman is a very active small press based in Oxfordshire, England, publishing mainly poetry. We publish around 50 books and two issues of Shearsman magazine every year. The list of authors is completely international, although there are of course more British authors than those from elsewhere. We have a very strong translation list, with a particular emphasis on Hispanic poetry — whether from Latin America or the Peninsula — but we also have fascinating books from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Turkey, and elsewhere. Use the menu bar at the top of the page to get around, and explore the shop (far left in the menu bar), where you can find all of our titles that are in print.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
FEATURED AUTHORS
PETRA WHITE
Petra White was born in Adelaide in 1975. She is the author of six poetry collections, the first five of which were published in Australia – including
Cities (Vagabond Press 2021). She currently lives in England with her family, and works as a policy advisor.
That Galloping Horse (2024) is Petra's first collection with Shearsman Books, and was shortlisted for the 2025 Australian Prime Minister's Award in poetry, the country's most prestigious literary prize.
ELIZA O'TOOLE
Eliza O’Toole’s poems have appeared in Shearsman magazine, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence, and Poetry Review. She published The Dropping of Petals (Muscaliet Press, 2021), A Cranic of Ordinaries (Shearsman, 2024) and Buying the Farm (Shearsman, 2025). She was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 for her pamphlet The Unpinning of Moths.
A Cranic of Ordinaries, her first Shearsman collection, was shortlisted for the 2025 Laurel Prize, and the following volume, Buying the Farm is currently shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards in the poetry category.
CAROL WATTS
Carol Watts is a poet who lives in south-east London. Her twelve collections and chapbooks include Mimic Pond, Kelptown and When Blue Light Falls (Shearsman Books), Occasionals and Wrack (Reality Street), Fifty-Six with George Szirtes (Arc), Sundog (Veer), and Dockfield (Equipage). She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex.
Carol's book Mimic Pond )2024) was shortlisted for the 2025 Laurel Prize.