Mary Coghill: Designed to Fade Click on covers for more information, where available.
Published
2006. 120pp, paperback. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700059
Designed to Fade is a narrative poem about life in the modern city of London, a journey through a day in London seen through a woman's eyes. The drama begins in the early hours and ends at the same time the following day. Referring to city poetry by other poets and experimenting with poetic form in an attempt to develop a women's poetry of the city, the author has developed an intriguing post-modernist slant to the dramatic unities of time, place and character. As city dweller you will find yourself in here. There are place names, descriptions of commuter journeys and brushes with authority, work and bosses which will evoke an empathy that modern poetry has all too often omitted to express. Designed to Fade is a stylistic tour-de-force, and a most unusual sequence of poems. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Peter Cole: What is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998
Published
2005. 212pp, paperback. £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9780907562795
This volume gathers between a single set of covers the two highly praised books of poems published by Peter Cole in the United States—Rift and Hymns & Qualms. The doubling of its title, however, runs deeper, and reflects Cole's long engagement with the cultures of Jerusalem and linkage at every level. Whether a poem takes up the patterns of bird flight, the Eros of speech, or the slaughter of Muslim worshippers by a Jewish settler in Hebron, the poet's concern throughout has been with forms of offering and strategies of sustenance. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Jennifer Clement: New and Selected Poems
Published
2008. Paperback, 110pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700462
Jennifer Clement has published three collections of her work in bilingual editions in Mexico, where she was born and still lives. Although better-known outside Mexico as a novelist / prose-writer (A True Story Based on Lies, Widow Basquiat), she has been writing poetry for many years and runs the annual San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende with her sister, Barbara Sibley. This volume draws on her Mexican collections and also includes more recent work. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Susan Connolly: Forest Music
Published
February 2009. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610262
Forest Music is Susan Connolly's second full-length collection. Many poems in the book depict the author's personal encounter with her landscape. Living in Drogheda, close to the Boyne Valley, her poems celebrate the famous archaeological monuments of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange alongside local landmarks: the Maiden Tower, the seawall at Baltray and the discovery in a back garden of a cobbled garden dating from the early nineteenth century.
Her recent work is more experimental in form. These poems involve a typography in which the visual pattern corresponds in some way to the sense of the word or phrase represented. Dissatisfied with words always moving from left to right across the page, in these poems words can be vertical instead of horizontal, and move in circles and spirals as the need dictates.
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Kelvin Corcoran: Backward Turning Sea
Published
2008. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700684
Corcoran's first collection since his New & Selected Poems in 2004, Backward Turning Sea (i.e. the Mediterranean) shows the author deepening his engagement with Greece, both ancient and modern—but it is a place where contemporary politics can intrude, disturbing the reverie. The collection also includes a number of poems vased on the author's fascination with the paintings of the St Ives artist, Roger Hilton. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Kelvin Corcoran: New and Selected Poems
Published
2004, 196pp, paperback, 8.5"x5.5", £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9780907562399
Kelvin Corcoran's first book, Robin Hood in the Dark Ages, appeared in 1985 and he has published eight subsequent collections with a range of British small presses. This volume presents a complete new collection, Against Purity, together with a previously unpublished shorter sequence, My Life With Byron, plus selections from each of his previous nine volumes of poetry, to give an overview of the work of one of the finest British poets of his generation. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Kelvin Corcoran: When Suzy Was
Published
1999. 48pp, paperback. £5.50 / $7.50.
ISBN 9780907562252
The author's eighth collection, containing a number of poems focused on Greece.
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Cid Corman: Marginalia
Published 1996. 44pp, A5 Paperback, £5 / $9.95
ISBN 9780907562214
A rare UK publication for this major US poet, long resident in Japan, this is a collection of the short lyrics for which Corman (1924-2004) was renowned.
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Philip Crick: Episodes
Published 1981. 16pp, centre-stapled. Out of print.
ISBN-10 0907562027
Originally issued as part of the 4th issue of the first series of Shearsman magazine.
Philip Crick: Evolving the Idol: The Poetry of Gustaf Sobin
Published 1984. 28pp, centre-stapled. Out of print.
Published jointly with Oasis Books, London.
ISBN
9780903375641
The earliest study of Gustaf Sobin's poetry, partly based on conversations with him by the late author.
M.T.C. Cronin: <More or Less Than> 1-100
Published
2004. Paperback, 9x6ins, 140pp, £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9780907562474
The second British collection by this extraordinarily talented Australian poet, who is creating a stir in several parts of the world. Poems 1-13 and 88-100 from this one-hundred poem sequence appeared in Shearsman magazine, issue 54, but the full scope of the piece only becomes clear with publication of the complete book: one hundred poems, where poem 1 has 1 line, poem 2 has 2 lines, all the way to poem 50 with fifty lines, 51 with 49 lines and back down to 100 which is a one-liner again. Like many forms, self-imposed or otherwise, Ms. Cronin uses this apparently restrictive structure to support a wonderfully original unfolding of verse. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
Winner of the C J Dennis Prize in the Victoria State Premier's Awards, winner of the Innovation award in the Government of South Australia's 2006 Festival Awards; shortlisted for both the NSW Premier's Award (Kenneth Slessor Prize) and 'The Age' Book of the Year Award.
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M.T.C. Cronin: Notebook of Signs
Published
2007. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 /
$15.
ISBN 9781905700110
Another remarkable collection from this prize-winning Australian author. Her last Shearsman collection, the very original <More or Less Than> 1-100 won two of Australia's major literary awards; this new volume is as path-breaking as the last and proves that she is one of the most talented poets of her generation.
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M.T.C. Cronin & Peter Boyle: How does a man who is dead reinvent his body? The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli
Published
2008. Paperback, 140pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848610163
Subtitled The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli—a neglected 20th century poet influenced by Celan and Vallejo—this collection represents the merging of two contemporary Antipodean poets into the consciousness of a mysterious third.
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Elsa Cross: Selected Poems
Published
September 2009. Paperback, 126pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700479. Edited by Tony Frazer. Translated
by Anamaría
Crowe Serrano, Ruth Fainlight, John Oliver Simon, Michael Smith
& Luis Ingelmo.
Elsa Cross (b. 1946) is one of Mexico's most significant contemporary poets, and this is the first full-length collection of her work in English—a long overdue but welcome opportunity for Anglo-American readers to get a sense of the full breadth of her work. The work selected for this volume concentrates on her longer poems, which are at the core of Elsa Cross' work—ranging from the remarkable 'Bacchantes', which dates from the late '70s and early '80s and offered here in full, through 'Malabar Canto'—suffused with the spirit of India—to the odes, dithyrambs and elegies of the recent Greek-inflected works. Elsa Cross' work is typified by its strong metaphysical orientation, coupled with a dazzling surface and remarkable imagery, and offers the English-speaking reader a new experience. A poetry to be savoured, thanks to the efforts of the five translators at work here, all of whom worked closely with the author to bring these poems successfully across the language barrier.
Anamaría Crowe Serrano: Femispheres
Published
2008. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700592
A first collection for Irish poet-translator Anamaría Crowe Serrano. Over the past two to three years her work has been appearing in magazines in Ireland, the UK and the USA, as have her translations from the Spanish and Italian.
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Claire Crowther: Stretch of Closures
Published
2007. Paperback, 104pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700189
The array of characters in this book of lyric poems personify twenty-first century language, found on adverts, shopfronts, train tickets. Stretch of Closures writes down an urban landscape in an alphabet made readable by its citizens. If it is the dead metaphors that define everyday lives, Claire Crowther shakes them up to show not just history but signposts to the future.
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Claire Crowther: The Clockwork Gift
Published
February 2009. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610323
The Clockwork Gift is Claire Crowther's second collection. The poems here continue the lyrical and reflective voice of her first collection, Stretch of Closures, and examine the place of older women in contemporary culture. Claire Crowther combines a control of rhetoric with myth-making skill and these poems include striking new figures such as the yellow-furred thike and its human cousin, or the countrywoman who answers the call of Maleficence. This is also the landscape of looking back; memory is a faculty idolised in our time and shown here to be as fragile as the stuff of grandmother's dresses yet tough enough to bond complex human relationships.
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Catherine Daly: Vauxhall
Published
2008. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700714
Vauxhall is pitched where voice and experience coincide. The poems sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and vending machines. Vauxhall is a calendar. It's an "all occasion" greeting and gift.
The Hollywood pitch for Vauxhall might have been "Marianne Moore meets Joan Jett" or "Alexander Pope goes to night school." Download a sample from this book to your desktop.
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Ian Davidson: At a Stretch
Published
2004. Paperback, 9"x6", 109pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9780907562443
The author's second full-scale collection, following a series of fine chapbooks, and his largest collection so far. Ian Davidson is one of the most exciting and innovative English-language poets currently writing in Wales, and his radical engagement with landscape in these poems offers new ways of using and approaching landscape within the context of a poem.
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Ian Davidson: As if Only
Published
2007. Paperback, 9x6ins, 84pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700080
The author's second Shearsman collection, following his successful first large collection, At a Stretch (2004). The author says of this book: "These poems were written in Bangor, in north Wales, in Barcelona, in London, on the Baltic coast and in Fez and Marrakech. Despite the distances involved they are the result of a period of introspection and self-possession. Travel doesn't necessarily broaden the mind. In some cases only the long lines would do, and the language had to be chewed over, while in others, when the town was quiet and the blood had stopped pounding in my head, I could clip the tone and measure out the words a few at a time." Download a sample PDF from this book here
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Richard Deming: Let's Not Call It Consequence
Published
2008. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700660
In Let's Not Call It Consequence, Richard Deming's first full-length collection of poems, the poet brings together abstraction and precise images to explore the intensities and reversals of lyric thinking, that "infinitely stuttering thing." These poems searchingly engage the content and form of anger, violence, intimacy, and the poetics of proximity, exploring the intricacies of language use to find the ways that "to ache, so to speak, is human." Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Peter Dent: Handmade Equations
Published
2005.Paperback 8.5x5.5ins, 100pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9780907562658
A collection of over eighty poems written since the beginning of the new century, this book showcases Peter Dent's remarkable investigations into the possibilities of the modern lyric and the possibilities of language. Download a sample PDF from this book here
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