The Book of the Month series was founded on the Shearsman website in 2003, with the aim of highlighting certain significant publications that the editor found particularly exciting. Books of the Month were selected up until June 2004, at which point the editor found that there was not enough time in his day to keep on doing this. Some reviews are now being outsourced and the editor will confine himself to shorter reviews of current books and magazines whenever time permits.

June 2004

Theodore Enslin: Nine
(National Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME. 296pp, pb 9ins x 6ins, $22.95; h/c $34.95. ISBN 0-943373-69-7 pb / 0-943373-70-0 h/c).

December 2003

Peter Redgrove : Sheen
(Stride, Exeter, 2003. 163pp, pb, 170mm x 145mm, £10. ISBN 1-900152-87-8).

May 2004

John Taggart: Pastorelles
(Flood Editions, Chicago, 2004. 104pp, pb, $13.95, ISBN 0-9746902-1-4)

November 2003

Christopher Middleton: Of the Mortal Fire. Poems 1999-2002.
(Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY, 2003. ISBN 1-931357-13-7. 110pp, 9 x 6.5 ins, pb, $12.95).

April 2004: Peter Larkin: 3 Chapbooks from The Gig

Sprout Near Severing Close (56pp, ISBN 0-9685294-9-6. $6 / £4.50); What the Surfaces Enclave of Wang Wei (20pp, ISBN 0-9685294-8-8. $4.50 / £3.50); Rings Resting the Circuit (40pp, ISBN 0-9685294-7-X. $5.50 / £4.25)

October 2003

Michael Ayres: a.m.
(Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2003. 272pp, pb, £11.95 / $16.95. ISBN 1-876857-28-5)

March 2004

César Vallejo : The Black Heralds (translated by Rebecca Seiferle)
(Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA, 2003. 197pp, pb, $16.00. ISBN 1-55659-199-3).

September 2003

Theodore Enslin: In Tandem
(Stop Press, London, 2003. 262pp, pb, £14.50. ISBN 0-9529961-8-9).

February 2004

Vicente Huidobro : Altazor
(translated by Eliot Weinberger) (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2003. 152pp, pb, $19.95. ISBN 0-8195-6678-0).

August 2003

M.T.C. Cronin: beautiful, unfinished
(Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2003. Isbn 1-876857-29-3. 103pp, pb, £8.95 / $12.95).

January 2004

Ken Edwards : eight+six
(Reality Street Editions, London, 2003. 112pp, pb, 170mm x 120mm, £10. ISBN 1-874400-25-3).

July 2003

Richard Burns: Book With No Back Cover
(David Paul Books, London, 2003. 105pp, pb, ISBN 0-9540542-3-7. £7.99.)

June 2003

George Stanley: A Tall Serious Girl. Selected Poems 1957-2000.
(Qua Books, Jamestown, RI, USA, 2003. Edited by Kevin Davies & Larry Fagin. 222pp, hardcover, ISBN 0-9708763-2-7. $25. Limited signed edition ISBN 0-9708763-3-5 $100).

May 2003

Jennifer Moxley: The Sense Record
(Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2003. 93pp, pb, ISBN 1-876857-93-5. £8.95.)

April 2003

Jaime Saenz: Immanent Visitor. Selected Poems. Translated by Kent Johnson & Forrest Gander
(University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 2002. 145pp, pb, ISBN 0-520-23048-5. $19.95, £13.95. H/c ISBN 0-520-23047-7 $49.95, £35.)

March 2003

Mónica de la Torre & Michael Wiegers (eds): Reversible Monuments. Contemporary Mexican Poetry
(Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA, 2002. 675pp, pb, $20). ISBN 1-55659-159-4.

February 2003

Tom Raworth: Collected Poems
(Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2003. 576pp, pb, £16.95, $25.95. ISBN 1-85754-624-5).

Book of the Year 2003

January 2003

Wendy Mulford: and suddenly, supposing: Selected Poems
(Etruscan Books, Buckfastleigh, 2002. Isbn 1-901538-41-9 h/c, 42-7 pb. 190pp, £25 h/c, £9.50 pb)