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.
ISBN 9780903375634
A single poem, subsequently collected in the New Directions volume Voyaging Portraits (New York, 1988). Published jointly with Oasis Books, London.
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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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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.
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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.
The cover, shown here, incorporates a painting, Out of Summer 1, 2001, by Julia Ball, reproduced by permission of the artist.
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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.
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. Order from amazon.co.uk or direct from the press.
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.
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Scott Thurston: Momentum
Published
2008. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.00
ISBN 9781905700325
Scott Thurston's second Shearsman collection consists of three long sequences of poems and marks a significant new phase in his work.
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.
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.
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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."
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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.
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