Gustaf Sobin: Caesurae: Midsummer Click on covers for more information, where available.
Published 1981. 18pp, A5 centre-stapled.
ISBN-10 0907562000. Out
of print.
Originally issued as part of the 4th issue of the first series of Shearsman magazine. The text has not been subsequently reprinted in this form, although approximately half of it did appear in the Montemora volume Celebration of the Sound Through (New York, 1982).
Gustaf Sobin: Carnets 1979-1982
Published 1984. 32pp, A5 centre-stapled. £3.00.
ISBN 9780907562061
Four of the author's annual poem sequences collected in one volume. Since reprinted in the New Directions volume The Earth as Air (New York, 1984).
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Gustaf Sobin: Nile
Published
1984. 8pp, centre-stapled. £2.50. Out of print.
ISBN 9780903375634
A single poem, subsequently collected in the New Directions volume Voyaging Portraits (New York, 1988). Published jointly with Oasis Books, London.
Gustaf Sobin: Blown Letters, Driven Aphabets
Published 1994. 24pp, centre-stapled chapbook, with jacket. £4.99.
ISBN 9780907562191
Contains three poems: 'On the Nature of the Iconic'; 'Transparent Itineraries 1991' and 'Transparent Itineraries 1992', all of which were later collected in the author's New Directions volume Breath's Burials (1995)
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William Strode: Selected Poems
Published
October 2009. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610057 Shearsman Classics Vol. 5
Edited by Tony Frazer.
William Strode, born in Plympton, Devon, in the early years of the 17th century, is a little-known poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, but he was a fine lyric poet and little deserves his oblivion. Hitherto the only publication of his work was by Bertram Dobell in 1907, since which time he has often been anthologised but never again granted a volume of his own. This volume redresses the balance.
Janet Sutherland: Hangman's Acre
Published
October 2009. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610743
Born in Salisbury in 1957 and growing up on a dairy farm, Janet Sutherland
studied at Cardiff and Essex Universities and has an MA in American poetry.
After twenty years living and working in East London she moved to Lewes in
2001 with her partner and son. Her first collection, Burning the Heartwood,
was published by Shearsman in 2006.
The poems in Hangman's Acre are lyrical, weaving images of loss and of love, of grief and light, of language and nature. Where there is beauty it is beauty with an edge.
Janet Sutherland: Burning the Heartwood
Published
2006. Paperback 8x5ins, 86pp. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562887
Burning the Heartwood is Janet Sutherland's debut collection, and marks the arrival of a talented new lyric voice, with a decided taste for the pastoral. Her arrival is somewhat delayed, as she first made a name as a poet in the 1980s, and was featured in the Paladin anthology, The New British Poetry, but she stopped writing in the 90s and only returned to it in the new century. Her work has been appearing regularly over the past two years in UK and US journals, both print and online. This volume covers both her earlier and her more recent work. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Harriet Tarlo: Poems 1990-2003
Published
2004. 152pp, paperback. £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9780907562450
Poems 1990-2003 collects under one set of covers all of Harriet Tarlo's short sequences and shorter poems from 1990 onwards, and thus enables the reading public to get a clear overview of her work for the first time. Harriet Tarlo's poetry is best described as 'radical pastoral', where a late-modernist poetics engages with landscape in a most original way. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Nathaniel Tarn: Avia
Published
2008. Paperback, 304pp, 9x6ins, Price £13.95 / $25
ISBN 9781848610026
Franco-Anglo-American poet Nathaniel Tarn worked for over fifteen years on researching and writing this long poem about the fate of fighter aircraft and their pilots in 1939–45. In this most surprising departure from his usual concerns, Tarn shows Charles Lindbergh dreaming of returning to the U.S. by air, instead of by sea (as ordered), after his great 1927 New York–Paris achievement. Once again he hears voices in his cockpit. These voices tell him the story of aviation in World War Two.
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Nathaniel Tarn: The Landsongs
Published 1982. 12pp, centre-stapled.
ISBN-10 0907562019. Out
of print.
Originally issued as part of the 4th issue of the first series of Shearsman magazine. Recently excerpted in the author's Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), and also collected in Palenque (see below).
Nathaniel Tarn: Palenque
Published 1986. 89pp, paperback. £7.50.
ISBN
9780907562092
A selection of Tarn's poems from the first 12 years of his American period. Only one of his subsequent American volumes – the long poem Lyrics for the Bride of God (not excerpted here) – was published in Britain, and thus this is the only large collection of Tarn's work to be published on this side of the Atlantic since 1975.
Published jointly with Oasis Books, London. Not for sale in the USA.
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Jon Thompson: After Paradise — Essays on the Fate of American Writing
Published
2009. Paperback, 136pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848610415
After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing lays bare the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with what Jon Thompson sees as a culture of violence and war. Focusing on William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, Walt Whitman's Specimen Days, Emily Dickinson's Letters and Michael Herr's Dispatches, After Paradise offers a series of moving, interconnected reflections upon what Thompson calls "the fate of American writing." Part cultural reflection, part lyrical criticism, part idiosyncratic literary history, After Paradise attempts to restore a sense of the original strangeness of American literature and culture by pushing the boundaries of the essay form.
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Nathan Thompson: the arboretum towards the beginning
Published
2008. Paperback, 80pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610149
Nathan Thompson mixes process and poetics with a dry wit, to produce texts that hold the reader’s hand through landscapes of the tangential (with occasional diversions back to the straight and narrow). This first collection juxtaposes prose poems with more traditional verse idioms, to create a whole that can be read either as a kind of disjunct musical narrative or as a collection of free-standing associative post-lyrics.
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Isobel Thrilling: The Language Creatures
Published
2007. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700219
A fourth collection, and the first in some years, for Isobel Thrilling, whose delicate lyrics deserve a wider audience. Isobel Thrilling was born in Suffolk, and brought up in a mining village in the north-east of England; she read English at Hull University and spent many years as Head of Service for teaching English as a Second Language in a London borough. She first started writing after eye-operations that saved her sight. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Scott Thurston: Momentum
Published
2008. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.00
ISBN 9781905700325
Momentum aims to recuperate what may be had of a lyric tradition refracted through a post-Language sensibility; generating, amongst other things, responses to Proust, Shelley and the experience of dancing. Change and time are intrinsic to the book's accumulative structure and the way in which the line-breaks argue with syntax attempts to show the process, the movement, of thinking in language in time: not a stream of consciousness, but rather more like a weir, a wave, or a rubble-filled alleyway. Download a sample from this book to your desktop.
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Scott Thurston: Hold
Published
2006. 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins. £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9780907562832
Hold is Scott Thurston's first book-length collection, and covers ten years of work, which have for some time now needed collecting. This is work which owes a lot to the tradition of innovative and experimental poetry in Britain and the USA, but which also sends out feelers in other directions. A radical but communicative poetry. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Elizabeth Treadwell: Birds and Fancies
Published
2007. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700165
Rhyme and ancestry – literary and otherwise – become contemporary in Elizabeth Treadwell's newest collection, Birds & Fancies, which traces a deepening initiation into the mysteries and continuities of history and biology brought on by motherhood. "Oh daughter thou/shalt grounde & playe." Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Siriol Troup: Beneath the Rime
Published
April 2009. Paperback, 92pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610309
Beneath the Rime is Sriol Troup's second collection of poems. Rooted in real and imagined landscapes, the poems in Beneath the Rime explore memory, art and language, asking above all what it is to be human. This new collection finds her adopting voices—human and animal, colloquial and historical—in her search for a 'proper viewing distance' where life's messy fragments fuse together, enabling us to understand our position—and negotiate our survival—in a troubling world where 'our tracks once told us where we were' but which now seems, at times, no more than a 'shudder on the horizon'.
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Gael Turnbull: There are Words: Collected Poems
Published
2006. 496pp, 9x6ins. £18.95 / $30
ISBN 9780907562894
Gael Turnbull – poet, doctor, performer and morris-dancer – was for many years a transatlantic poetic nexus in the UK, both through his own work, and through his pioneering Migrant Press, founded in 1957, an early outlet for figures such as Roy Fisher and Edward Dorn. This Collected gathers almost all of Gael Turnbull’s published poetry as well as a selection of uncollected and unpublished works. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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