Du Fu: Spring in the Ruined City — Selected Poems Click on book covers for more information.
Published
May 2008. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610002
Translated by Jonathan Waley
The Tang dynasty (618 – 907 AD), is celebrated as the greatest moment in Chinese poetry, a time when poetry was highly rated, and some of China's most famous poets were writing. Du Fu (712–770 AD) is widely regarded as the greatest of these. He himself wrote that he aimed to startle his readers, and in some of his more avant-garde poems he combines and contrasts images in a way that has an almost modernist feel to it. On the other hand, he also enjoyed and celebrated the simple pleasures in life, and his (apparently) lighter poems about friendship and his natural surroundings show this clearly. Download a sample from this book to your desktop.
Laurie Duggan: Compared to What – Selected Poems 1971-2003
Published
2005. Paperback 9x6ins, 224pp, £11.95 / $20
ISBN 9780907562610
This book is Duggan's first collection to be published in Britain and the USA, and is a career overview which serves to introduce a vibrant and colourful new voice which will sound familiar at first — with its obvious influences from the New York School — but will then sound stranger, as a distinctive Australian element emerges, an element moreover that communicates well across borders.
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Laurie Duggan: The Ash Range
Published
2005. Paperback 9x6ins, 248pp, £11.95
/ $20
ISBN 9780907562696
The Ash Range is a long documentary poem that mixes prose, poetry, reportage and illustrations — somewhat in the manner of William Carlos Williams' Paterson — to narrate a history of the settlers' engagement with Gippsland, a southerly region of Victoria State. Like Paterson, which concerns itself with small-town New Jersey, The Ash Range is not constrained by its locality, but instead finds the universal in its extended examination of the local. While the work is enormously ambitious in its mix of materials, the whole is welded into a solid structure that facilitates communication of the theme, even to an audience that is unaware of the territory it describes.
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Andrew Duncan: Switching and Main Exchange
Published 2000. A5 Paperback, 62pp, £6.50
/ $9
ISBN 9780907562276
This collection consists of the second half of the author's Threads of Iron manuscript, subject of much discussion since its partial appearance in magazines in the early 1980s. The first half of Threads was collected in 1990 as Cut Memories and False Commands (Reality Studios, London).
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Andrew Duncan: Pauper Estate
Published 2000. A5 Paperback, 52pp, £6.00
/ $8.50
ISBN 9780907562283
A collection of the author's poems dating from the late 1990s.
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Andrew Duncan: Savage Survivals amid modern suavity
Published
2006. 8.5"x5.5", 116pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700035
Here are arcane mysteries, here are forgotten histories; here are assorted arcana and incunabula; and here there is a transposition of a Chinese classic to contemporary Glasgow, filtered through the mesh of a Chinese martial-arts movie. And what connects aerial photography, growing up in the Turkic lands, and sound-poetry (the difficulties of)? — Andrew Duncan's imagination, which ranges far and wide, but always brings back news of interesting climes, and landhaps even the poets' heads do grow beneath their shoulders.
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Susanne Dyckman: equilibrium's form
Published
2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700202
In Susanne Dyckman's first full-length collection, following from her Etherdome Press chapbook published in 2005, poetic tonalities and phrasings are used to disrupt the chronology of past and present. Language plays — and replays — across the page, radiating from interiority to historical concreteness and back again. The reader is impelled through a temporal spiral, "the body as it moves in sequences of rain". Download a sample PDF from this book here
Ken Edwards: No Public Language – Selected Poems 1975-1995
Published
2006. 8.5x5.5ins, 184pp, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781905700011
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." Download a sample PDF from this book here
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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Peter Finch: The Welsh Poems
Published
2006. 9x6ins, 184pp, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9780907562917
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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Jennifer Firestone: Holiday
Published
2008. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700530
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. Click here to read Tony Frazer's Introduction to the book.
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 May 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.
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
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.
Tony Frazer (ed): Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age, in contemporary English translations
Shearsman
Classics No. 3.
Published
February 2008. Paperback, 120pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700691
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here
Hazel Frew: Seahorses
Published
May 2008. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700615
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
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.
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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