Welcome to Shearsman
Shearsman Books is a very active publisher of new poetry, mostly from Britain and the USA, but also with an active translation list. Founded in 1981 as a magazine, with some occasional chapbooks. the press has grown rapidly in recent years, thanks to the advent of new technologies. 2011 will see our 30th anniversary, as well as a rather more painful one for the publisher, and we will organise several events during that year to mark this milestone, in our usual haunts of Exeter and London, but also further afield. Watch this space later in 2010 for more about this. Shearsman published some 60 new titles in each of 2008 and 2009. Recent publications, shown right include (from the top down) books by Jennifer Clement, John Muckle, Brandi Homan, Elisabeth Bletsoe, and Tsvetanka Elenkova (translated from the Bulgarian by Jonathan Dunne). For access to detailed catalogues and stocklists in PDF form, covering all titles through to the end of 2009, click on the last-but-one button in the menu to your left. A print version of the early 2010 catalogue will be available from the press in late January. There are PDF sampler files of many of the books published by Shearsman available on this site; these may be accessed by going to the books home page, where you should then click on the publication years in the menu. At present there are samplers available for about half of our titles, up to the end of 2008. We will add samplers for the 2009 and 2010 titles during the course of 2010. E-books are also available for free download, including titles by Geoffrey Squires, Ken Edwards and Rodney Nelson — just click on the e-books link to your left. We have 3 or 4 new e-books under preparation for publication early in 2010. The Gallery contains poetry and visual work: the most recent publication there is Waddenzee by Kate Ashton & Gerrit Offringa, and more such exhibits are in preparation. If you're not sure how to find what you're looking for, please use the search field below, which is a Google-driven facility, and far superior to our previous on-site search.
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A note on copyright
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