George Economou: Ananios of Kleitor
Published
2009. Paperback, 144pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 978184860330 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Ananios of Kleitor introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet largely unknown and hitherto unread outside of a small circle of cognoscenti. The poet's extant poems and fragments, as well as the record of their reception and preservation, are presented in this one-of-a-kind book of the sort that would have appealed to Menippus of Gadara and his followers, a medley of verse and prose and a diversity of genres, ranging from the epistolary novel to scholarly annotations and an Index Nominum. Ananios and his scholars and commentators perform their work at the edge of the real world and the margins of a thoroughly historicized and critically acute context.
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Ken Edwards: Songbook
Published
2009. Paperback, 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610675 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
This book, spanning two decades of work, contains songs that have never been and never will be sung; anti-lyric and narrative poems for which a musical equivalent has been constructed; and text written specifically for musical purposes. The volume is completed with scores composed by Elaine Edwards of settings of three poems from Ken Edwards' earlier book eight + six.
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Ken Edwards: No Public Language – Selected Poems 1975-1995
Published
2006. 8.5x5.5ins, 184pp, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781905700011 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
The author says of this Selected: "This volume contains what I think of as the essential matter in my verse composition over two decades. I tend to compose in books, and didn’t want to disturb the integrity of my favourites: therefore Drumming & Poems, Intensive Care and 3600 Weekends are included in their entirety, as are the shorter sequences 'A4 Portrait' and 'A4 Landscape'. Erik Satie loved children, an early pamphlet, is also included, as I still think it’s quite sweet, and besides it was the first showing of what later evolved into my preferred procedures: cutting and splicing, juxtaposition, language play, composition by rhythm."
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Tsvetanka Elenkova The Seventh Gesture
Translated
from Bulgarian by Jonathan Dunne
Published 2010. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins
ISBN 9781848610842 £8.95 / $15 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
The most striking image of extreme eros and extreme pain is that of Christ on the Cross. This book of 77 poems by the Bulgarian author Tsvetanka Elenkova navigates between these two extremes. The poems are like a pulsation, or a gesture, and don't take a breath. In this sense, there is no space or silence in them and yet a gesture, for example of pointing or stopping, when it is tired and the fingers relax, becomes one of blessing and so it is that the poet Iana Boukova writes of this book: "Gesture introduces silence, replacing words and their definitions. There are whole passages full of the underwater silence of one gesture." It is rare to have a book of Bulgarian literature published in English and the reader will find here many elements of Bulgarian culture and the Orthodox tradition.
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Kjell Espmark: Bela Bartók Against the Third Reich
Translated
from the Swedish by Robin Fulton
Published 1985. A5 Paperback, 77pp, £7.50. Published jointly with Oasis
Books, London, and Norstedts, Stockholm.
ISBN 9780903375702
The first publication in English by one of Sweden's leading poets. The selection was made by the author and the translator from a trilogy of volumes published in Swedish in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Carrie Etter Divining for Starters
Published
February 2011. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611504 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
"Carrie Etter catches the drift and pushes it lightly into her courses. Lilting now, her courses swerve between the reaches of the American mid-West and the claggy ruts of England, and their erotics are those of skin and fold, of elegant runs and breaks. Carrie Etter's poems give the feel of pleasure; they take unpredictable turns. When all about would be stipulated, Divining for Starters points heedfully to the possible." (John Wilkinson)
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Carrie Etter (ed.) Infinite Difference : Other Poetries by UK Women Poets
Published
2010. Paperback, 210pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848610996 [Download a PDF of the introduction to this
book here.]
An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.
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Paul Evans: The Door of Taldir — Selected Poems
Edited
by Robert Sheppard.
Published 2009. Paperback, 124pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848610255 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
Paul Evans (1945–1991) was a significant member of the group of new radical poets that appeared in England in the late 1960s, but his work remains scattered through a number of small-press publications from 1970–1987 and is now entirely out of print. This Selected Poems redresses the situation and makes available a broad selection of Evans' work from throughout his career—a career that was cut tragically short by a climbing accident.
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Peter Finch: The Welsh Poems
Published
2006. 9x6ins, 184pp, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9780907562917 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
The Welsh Poems might also be called 'Selected Experimental Poems' and highlights Finch's more unusual excursions into verbal and visual trickery. The book covers work written over a period of two decades and is the first such large-scale selection of his work.
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Ann M. Fine: A Nest This Size
Published
2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610699 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
Ann Fine's A Nest This Size is a journey embarked on via contradictory terms that occur when one attempts to explore the limitations of human (vs?) sentient abidance. Postmodern problems with things and places such as home, body, language, tradition, sleeve, machine/vehicle and rabbit hole become the relative metastructures through which these contradictions are channeled.
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Keri Finlayson: Rooms
Published
2009.Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610347 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
Keri Finlayson's first collection Rooms finds its centre in the etymology of the words camera, a chamber and stanza, a resting place. Both are forms of enclosure, of inclusion and exclusion that forge definition and force choices over the stories we want to be told and the stories we want to see. Rooms develops two intertwining narratives. In the first, the poet remembers and reimagines her grandmother as a young woman, and the family stories that surrounded her. Exploring the notions of editing and stitching, patterns and limits, it describes her seduction during the making of a silent film in Cornwall in 1919. The second concerns the history of film from the depiction of multiple movement in early cave painting, through the invention of the camera obscura, to The Jazz Singer; the first "talkie". What is a history of technology and a story of seduction and violence, is also a collection of stanza about camera, rooms about rooms.
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Jennifer Firestone: Holiday
Published
2008. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700530 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
While ostensibly documenting a European vacation, Holiday interrogates historical narratives and artistic representations, examining patriarchal and nepotistic political and religious connections that are repackaged into the souvenir experience. From stripped reportage to dream fragments, Holiday positions the "traveler" in a hyperconscious lens that undermines conventional notions about the meaning of a holiday. Beneath the careful recording of art, food, and guidebooks’ “most visited sites” are reverberations of war and power exposing the traveler's consumer culpability and the role of choice in demarcating and memorializing personal and historical trajectories.
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Roy Fisher: Interviews Through Time, and Selected Prose
Edited
by Tony Frazer Published 2000. A5 Paperback, 148pp, £9.95
/ $14.
ISBN 9780907562269
Excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book also includes an autobiographical piece on Fisher's early years as well as other short prose pieces that are otherwise unobtainable. Essential to an understanding of Roy Fisher's work as a poet.
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Roy Fisher: The Cut Pages
Published
1986. A5 Paperback, 50pp. Published jointly with Oasis Books, London.
Out of print.
ISBN 9780907562115
Experimental prose text originally published in the Fulcrum Books volume of the same name in 1971.
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Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Collected Poems
Edited
by Anthony Barnett, and co-published with Allardyce Book.
Published 2008. Paperback, 188pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $22
ISBN 9781905700806
A revised Collected, bringing back into print an important body of work. This volume excludes the translations that were printed in the first posthumous gathering of the poet's work, but includes some extra poems and numerous revisions that have been discovered since that publication.
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Brandel France de Bravo (ed.) Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices
Translated
by various hands.
Published July 2010. Paperback, 248pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $22
ISBN 9781848610576 [Download a PDF of the introduction to this book here.]
Mexico is one of the major centres of Hispanic poetry—something which is perhaps more visible from the USA than from Britain, but nonetheless something that needs to be realised by anyone who cares about contemporary poetry in Spanish, or indeed, contemporary poetry of any kind. This volume includes work by the following poets: Luis Miguel Aguilar, María Baranda, Efraín Bartolomé, Marco Antonio Campos, Hector Carreto, Elsa Cross, Jennifer Clement, Antonio Deltoro, Gloria Gervitz, Francisco Hernández, Elva Macías, Víctor Manuel Mendiola, Samuel Noyola, José Luis Rivas, Silvia Tomasa Rivera, Pedro Serrano, Natalia Toledo, Manuel Ulacia, Jorge Valdés Díaz-Vélez and Verónica Volkow.
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Tony Frazer (ed.) : Poets of Devon & Cornwall – from Barclay to Coleridge
Shearsman
Classics No. 1. Published 2007, 8.5x5.5ins, 148pp, £9.95
/ $17. ISBN 9781905700509
[Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Alexander Barclay, George Peele, John Ford, Humfrey Gifford, Richard Carew,
Anne Dowriche, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, Joseph Hall, Robert Herrick,
Sidney Godolphin, William Strode, William Browne, Thomas Spratt, Mary, Lady
Chudleigh, Thomas D'Urfey, John Gay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
All of these
are poets born in the two westernmost counties of England, or—like
Hall and Herrick—poets who were active there. In time we stretch from
the very beginning of the 16th century until the early 19th century. We begin
with Barclay, a priest working in Ottery St. Mary, and we close with Coleridge,
the son of a priest in Ottery St. Mary, his birthplace.
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Tony Frazer (ed): Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age, in contemporary English translations
Shearsman
Classics No. 3. Published
2008. Paperback, 139pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700691 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Some of the greatest writers of 16th and 17th century Spain are represented here, in translations from 16th and 17th century England. This was an era when translation was important for the dissemination of new styles and forms, and it gives a fascinating view of two great literatures interacting—for both were at their peak: the Spanish Golden Age stretches from roughly 1540 to 1660, and the first great era of English poetry and drama overlaps this almost exactly. Poems by Montemayor, Boscán, Garcilaso, Góngora, Quevedo, Cervantes, Argensola and Mendoza; translations by Sidney, Ayres, Fanshawe, Drummond, Stanley, Yong and Shelton.
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Bill Freind (ed.) Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums — Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada
Published
January 2012. [publication dalayed from 2011] Paperback, 339pp, 9x6ins, £14.95 / $23
ISBN 9781848611849 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasusada was an invention, and while no one claimed responsibility for the work, most readers agree that Kent Johnson was the creator, although Johnson insists the actual author is Tosa Motokiyu, the pseudonym for an unnamed writer who is now dead.
This book considers all aspects of the Yasusada phenomenon.
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Hazel Frew: Seahorses
Published
2008. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700615 [Download
a sample PDF from this book here.]
Scottish poet Hazel Frew's first collection of poems offers tales of families, of growing up, and of the world around us, seen with uncommonly fresh eyes.
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Tamara Fulcher: The Recreation of Night
Published
2008. Paperback, 92pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700585 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A first collection by Edinburgh-based Tamara Fulcher, winner of the 2006 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize.
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Robin Fulton: Coming down to Earth and Spring is Soon
Published 1990. A5 Paperback, 53pp. Out
of print. Published jointly with Oasis
Books, London.
ISBN 9780907562160
Still the most recent full-length collection by this expatriate Scottish poet-translator.
Damian Furniss Chocolate Che
Published
2010. Paperback, 101pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611061 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
The poems in Chocolate Che were written in Cuba
in the fiftieth year of the revolution; in India working with dying destitutes
and recovering from tuberculosis; travelling up and down the spine of the Americas
and into the heart of Europe on the trail of soldiers, artists and monks.
Damian Furniss
works images into narratives that are both darkly humorous and strangely moving.
Using forms as varied as their subjects, with characteristic verbal intensity
and a probing wit, he returns to the fixations of his youth in wry but reflective
maturity. Along the way, he encounters the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa; visits
the houses of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, only to find no one's
at home; and collects the stubs of cigars that might once have been smoked
by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, but probably weren't.
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Angela Gardner: Views of the Hudson
Published
2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610804 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Views of the Hudson, written during a visit to New York in 2008, explores ideas of belonging and displacement. In a flood of images from this overcrowded information-rich city it weaves a narrative that suggests both the intoxication and dangers of believing in Promised Lands. Views of the Hudson shows the life of a city that is complicated and enriched for being at once both sacred and profane. Read more here.
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Lorand Gaspar: Four Poems
Translated
by Peter Riley
Published 1993. A5 centre-stapled, 43pp. £5.00.
Published jointly with Oasis Books, London.
ISBN 9780907562184
Translations of four long poems by a respected contemporary French poet.
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Gloria Gervitz: Migrations Click on covers for more information, where available.
Translated by Mark Schafer
Published 2004. Paperback, 9.25x7.5ins. 400pp. £15.95. Not
for sale outside the U.K.
ISBN 9780907562498
Migrations is a long poem, the final version of which runs to seven books. The first six were published in Mexico City in a single volume in 2002 by the Fondo de Cultura Económica. This volume presents the complete original text of Migraciones, with recent revisions, plus the seventh book, hitherto only available in a limited-edition chapbook, together with Mark Schafer's inspired translation of the entire text.
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Anna Glazova: Twice under the Sun
Translated
by Anna Khasin
Published 2008. Paperback, 105pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 /
$15
ISBN 9781905700929 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Twice under the Sun presents a cross-section of Anna Glazova's work from the past seven years, spectacularly translated—with the author's assistance—by Anna Khasin. The book is Ms Glazova's first book-length publication in English.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust — A Tragedy
Translated by Mike Smith. Shearsman Classics Series.
Published
February 2012. Paperback, 206pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848612143 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A new translation of one of the greatest monuments of German literature. This is the famous first part (Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil), and does not include the extraordinary (and virtually unstageable) Part 2, completed many years later. First published in 1808, and then in a revised edition in 1829, the story—a variant of the old Faustus legend—concerns the scientist (or perhaps, better, natural philosopher), Dr Heinrich Faust, whose scientific quests, and their lack of success, lead him into a state of great frustration. Parallel to this, Mephistopheles (the Devil) lays a wager with God that he can subvert God's favoured human (for this is Faust). .... (more on the book page)
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John Goodby Illennium
Published
May 2010. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610941 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Set in 'South-Wets Wales', Illennium is a cut-up sonnet sequence which draws on recent theories about the social role of shame as it traces the trajectory of a single attachment within a tangled set of friendships. Mixing disease and end-of-era career discontents, its plotlines cohere and decompose around the blown down sign of the No Sign bar, a local watering-hole. There they intermingle with texts that range from Enid Blyton to Keats, Rimbaud to Dafydd ap Gwilym. But the more shameless the embarrassment of riches, the more the lyric itself comes to seem 'a form of shame management', its anticipated plenitudes thwarted by 'silences stubbed out' on an 'I for an I / in the very temples of delight'. Even so, for all its anxieties concerning the 'dork inability' of the poet, or of poetry itself, to resist the abjection that follows, Illennium's brazenness is golden too; again and again, it reveals the peach-succulent heart of a recklessly playful work which spares no blushes in celebrating the 'brilliantly pointless' energies of language.
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Giles Goodland: What the Things Sang
Published
2009. Paperback, 112pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610545 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If (to contradict Wiitgenstein) poems are engaged in the language-game of giving information, how should that information be arranged? If Blake had, when he heard ringing in the trees, picked up the phone, what information would the things have sung to him? If Heraclitus had not been struck with his own lightning, would he be less fragmented to us now? This sequence of poems presents a number of possible and less possibleanswers to these questions. But more questions arise on the way.
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Mark Goodwin: Else
Published
2008. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700974 [Download
a sample PDF from this book here.]
A first collection for Leicestershire poet Mark Goodwin, and winner of an Eric Gregory Award in 1998.
"It’s thrilling to welcome a new poet into the company of our seriously exciting younger nature writers such as Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane . . . Mark Goodwin is a poet whose surround-senses are as alert as an animal’s, and whose writing is exceptionally grounded in so many of the complexities of being fully human." (Catherine Byron)
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Mark Goodwin Back of A Vast
Published
2010. Paperback, 90pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611191 [Download
a sample PDF from this book here.]
"These poems disclose a poet's rich relationship to the natural world by stripping away, by letting a raw objectivist lyric scrape off any rhetorical surface to discover the details beneath. This happens in almost every line, every phrase—so much so that finally his individual words seem to do it by themselves. The result is that /nature/ here ticks and clicks as though it were trying to find a halfway-house language between itself and the writer. Illusion of course, the trick of poetry, and Mark Goodwin is the magician." —Tim Allen
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Anne Gorrick: Kyotologic
Published
2008. Paperback, 108pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610040 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Anne Gorrick's first collection is a remarkable reworking of themes from the ancient Japanese Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.
"A densely beautiful book, young poems growing out of old poems, vines round an ancient pine. Imagine language talking to itself, all skin and rain and blossoms, scattering like leaves, seeming to remember some other country some other time—yet always being vividly present like a strange food you've taken into your mouth that's too sweet—but after a moment, just barely sweet enough, as we get to like this world Gorrick has incarnated for us here, safe in our deepest feelings." (Robert Kelly)
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Anne Gorrick I-Formation I
Published
2010. Paperback, 88pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611184 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
"In this book, Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea, as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical ways of speaking. Even though these poems exist here only on the page, her voice, unique and personal, is present in each, and it guides us through her surreal landscapes of concrete abstraction with gentle tenacity and a rich and vivid vocabulary. Everything exists, in her poems, as a thought, as a vision, as a sound through space, and all at once. What a poem must do to justify its existence is to surprise us with its necessary inevitability, which is what these poems do piece by piece, one by one, and together." —Geof Huth
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David H.W. Grubb: The Man Who Spoke to Owls
Published
2009. Paperback, 112pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610477 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
This new collection brings together three elements central to the poetry and prose of David Grubb. There is the world of surreal identities, of wonders, disturbances, angels, fire sermons and celebrations where animals and people speak with both words and silences. There is the unfinished business of growing up in a strict religious household and seeking meanings beyond rituals and texts. In the third section of the book Albania, Bosnia and other locations create a world where nothing is certain, the past provides constant challenges and distant voices call. The darkness is broken by stars.
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David H W Grubb Notes Relating to an Idea of Blue
Published
June 2011. Paperback, 132pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848611825 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
In David Grubb's new collection collisions, wonders, ballyhoo and sudden light signal the way we walk a tightrope between the real and the imagined. Our human world encompasses clowns, angels, the dead, ghosts and saints, parrots and horses, the upsidedown and secret dancing, kazoo music and heart songs.
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Carol Guess My Father in Water
Published
October 2011. Paperback, 90pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611856 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
"My father hovers in the aperture of a glistening window, suicide botched
by his mother's ghost. Numbers from his slide rule pause on the sill, fallen
by chance into a brilliant formula."
This interlinked collection of lyric essays documents Carol Guess's relationship
to her father, a brilliant scientist whose intensity and eccentricity shaped
family life in humorous and often lonely ways. In musical prose, writing as
a poet, teacher, and queer activist, Guess describes a life lived in service
to language. At once accessible and enigmatic, funny and somber, My Father
In Water is a haunting examination of the impact of family history on
one artist's journey.
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Harry Guest: Comparisons & Conversions
Published
2009. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610194 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Comparisons considers the disparities between memory and expectation as well as the alteration in events separated by the gap of years—since, sometimes when we journey, we are "hoping by space to leave / the faults of time behind".
Conversions contains the poetry translated since Versions appeared from Odyssey in 1999. Harry Guest regards the effort of translation as a vital complement to creative writing, providing not only a technical challenge but also the strange effect of inhabiting another's consciousness for a while.
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Christopher Gutkind: Inside to Outside
Published
2006. Paperback 9x6ins, 116pp, £8.95
/ $15
ISBN 9780907562955 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Through a variety of approaches Chris Gutkind shows a self exploring and working itself out across a range of preoccupations. It is a journey from inside to outside, from the more hermetic to the more expansive and from him to you, perhaps into you.
Born in the Netherlands and raised mostly in Canada, Chris Gutkind has lived in London for many years, where he is a librarian at the School of Oriental and African Studies. This is his first collection of poetry.
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