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.
Mark Goodwin: Else
Published
April 2008. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700974
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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Anne Gorrick: Kyotologic
Published
September 2008. Paperback, 108pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610040
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)
Christopher Gutkind: Inside to Outside
Published
2006. Paperback 9x6ins, 116pp, £8.95
/ $15
ISBN 9780907562955
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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John Hall: Couldn't You?
Published
2007. Paperback,
92pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700516
John Hall's first collection with Shearsman Books, and his first since the comprehensive Selected Poems published by Etruscan in 2002.
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Martin Harrison: Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems
Published
October 2008. Paperback, 168pp, 9x6ins, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781848610088
Subtle and sharply lyrical, these poems shimmer on the eye while being deeply
held at the back of the mind.
Martin Harrison has been described as a writer whose poetry is a meeting place between the immensity, and intensity, of the Australian environment and the hi-tech world of everyday life. Collected here is the poet's own re-casting of his work since the early 1990s, setting accomplished poems from earlier books in the company of recent poems and prose poems. Martin Harrison's Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems marks a place of arrival and a new departure.
Lee Harwood: Collected Poems
Published
2004. Paperback 9x6ins, 521pp. £17.95
/ $28
ISBN 9780907562405
A major event, this volume was the first career-spanning collection of Lee Harwood's work, and its publication was timed to coincide with the author's 65th birthday in 2004. Most of Lee Harwood's work is currently out of print, including the large-scale Selected Poems (crossing the frozen river) published by Paladin in the late 1980s, and this Collected makes all of it available once again, including some hard-to-find material and some recent uncollected work.
Lee Harwood: Selected Poems
Published
June 2008. Paperback, 140pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700936
In 2004, Shearsman published Lee Harwood's Collected Poems, which proved what many of us had known for many years: that Harwood is one of our living masters. Four years on, and we now offer a smaller selection of his work, which will serve as an introduction for new readers, covering the period from 1965 to 2007. While the lion's share of the poems are drawn from the Collected, a few new poems are also featured.
Lee Harwood & Kelvin Corcoran: Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood
Published
June 2008. Paperback, 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins, Price £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610019
To accompany Lee Harwood's new Selected Poems, we offer also this book-length collection of interviews with Harwood by his long-time friend and admirer, Kelvin Corcoran — himself also a Shearsman author. An invaluable opportunity to "hear" Harwood talking about poetry and about his own work.
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Michael Haslam: Mid Life
Published June 2007. Paperback, 208pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £11.95
/ $20
ISBN 9781905700394
Mid Life is subtitled 'Poetry 1980-2000', and is a revised and reconsidered Collected Poems covering the period 1980-1994 in terms of composition, and several further years of revision. The contents of this volume, in earlier versions, originally appeared as A Whole Bauble from Carcanet Press in 1995. Now much revised, this volume sums up the author's compositional "mid-life".
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Ralph Hawkins: The MOON, The Chief Hairdresser (highlights)
Published
2004. Paperback 9x6ins, 110pp. £8.95
/ $13.95
ISBN 9780907562429
The first full-length collection since the early 1990s by this highly original English poet. The volume includes the 'Pushkin' poems, previously only available in pamphlet form, as well as some 80 pages of previously uncollected work.
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Anthony Hawley: Forget Reading
Published
2008. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700707
In Forget Reading, Anthony Hawley's second collection for Shearsman Books, poems speak up despite themselves, and in doing so they affirm poetry's slight, subterranean power inside a culture of overwhelming and decadent ugliness. Due to the very odds stacked against them, these beautifully moving poems enact a radical little protest, unheeded by the majority rule.
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Anthony Hawley: The Concerto Form
Published
2006. Paperback 8.5x5.5ins, 92pp. £8.95
/ $15
ISBN 9780907562849
Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. He is the author of the chapbooks Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Vocative (Phylum Press), and his poems have appeared in various publications including Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, 26, and Volt. He currently lives in Nebraska with his wife and daughter and is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Concerto Form is his first full-length collection.
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Emmanuel Hocquard: Elegies, and other poems
Translated
by John A. Scott. Published 1989. A5 Paperback, 48pp. £5
/ $9.95
ISBN 9780907562153
The only collection of Hocquard's work available in the UK, this book includes the first five Elegies (originally published by P.O.L., Paris, 1979 & 1987) in translations by the renowned Australian poet-novelist, John A. Scott. The complete Elegies (1-7) were subsequently published by Picador Australia in 1990 in Scott's collected Translations. Elegies 6 and 7 were later published in Shearsman magazine in slightly revised versions.
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Paul Holman: The Memory of the Drift – Books I-IV
Publilshed
2007. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95
/ $15
ISBN 9781905700295
This volume combines a revised text of the first part of The Memory of the Drift (written 1993-1999, and originally published in 2001) with the three interlocking, previously uncollected, books in which its argument is extended: In the Common Era, Dog Mercury and Vicinal.
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Brandi Homan: Hard Reds
Published
September 2008. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700813
A first collection for Chicago-based poet and small-press publisher, Brandi Homan.
"Like the stream of cut-paper hearts in her Valentine Factory, Brandi Homan's poems are connected 'at the blade's edge,' are all 'hard reds'—an intelligent and imaginative woman coming to terms with desire. This collection is an exciting 'kick-start' for her electric voice." — David Trinidad
Jeremy Hooker: Upstate – A North American Journal
Published
2007. Paperback, 148pp, 9x6ins, £9.95
/ $17
ISBN 9781905700226
An American journal – recorded while on an academic exchange in the North-East of the USA – by a leading English poet, whose collected poems, The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005 appeared from Enitharmon in 2006. Something of a companion volume to the same author's Welsh Journal (2001), which is still available from Seren.
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Peter Hughes: Nistanimera
Published
2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95
/ $15
ISBN 9781905700288
A new collection from this Cambridge-based poet and painter, his first new collection in several years.
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Judith Infante: Love: A Suspect Form — Heloise and Abelard
Published
October 2008. Paperback, 124pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700820
Heloise and Abelard — Since the 12th century writers, artists, and musicians have been inspired by the details of their story—famous philosopher and his pupil, forbidden love affair, abandoned son, castration, monastic life, and heresy trials.
In this remarkable collection Judith Infante gives us a series of poems that form a verse novel about the medieval lovers. The poems make clear how bound was their relationship to its period, yet capture the intensity of their timeless and conflicting emotions.
Heloise and Abelard became different people as their story moved from romance to life apart and finally to their individual deaths and the mysterious change that implies. By interweaving Ovid’s myth of Atalanta with the story of Heloise and Abelard, Love, A Suspect Form calls attention to the many and often disorienting aspects we present to each other.
Kent Johnson: Homage to the Last Avant-Garde
Published
September 2008. Paperback, 120pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781905700950
Homage contains a wide variety of poems and prose, representing all strands of Johnson's work: versions from the Greek, traduced to an extraordinary degree; anti-war poems, overflowing with rage; stink-bombs tossed in the direction of some famous poets, mostly meant in an ironic, joshing way. But not all. And then there are memoir poems of persons met and places visited, that may well be documentary in nature, or may also be artfully disguised. Memory is, after all, an awkward thing, and not to be trusted, just as politicians and their henchmen are not and there is no irony in their treatment in this book. No, sir, none at all.
Andrew Jordan: Ha-ha
Published
2007. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95
/ $15
ISBN 9781905700127
These poems explore the remnants of a system of ancient narrative trackways that criss-cross the landscapes of south and south west England. These flows of energy underpin the hermetics of enclosure. They are explored here for the first time. This book might be a strategy – a self help manual for the ontologically dispossessed – or just an encouragement to trespass in the newly enclosed purlieu of the self. Tell it how you want, emblematic landscapes – and how we perceive them – can mirror identity and relationship, creating a cultural space within which both can become tenable.
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Trevor Joyce: with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold. A Body of Work, 1966-2000
2nd
Edition. Published 2003. Paperback 9x6ins, 241pp, £11.95
UK, €18 Ireland, $18 USA
ISBN 978-0-907562-37-5
A collected poems by this late-modernist Irish poet who is finally being recognised for the important figure that he is. His first publication in the UK, this book is jointly published with New Writers' Press, Dublin. An earlier edition, in a slightly different format, was published in 2001, and is now o.o.p.
Trevor Joyce: Courts of Air and Earth
Published
2008. Paperback 8x5ins, 92pp, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562955
Please note that publication of this title has been delayed from 2006.
This volume extracts the author's remarkable translation of the epic 'Sweeny Peregrine' from the above volume and offers it together with a large group of other versions from the Old and Middle Irish, thus offering Anglophone readers a glimpse of some very unusual verse that rarely sees the light of day outside academic volumes, while also transposing it into a form that will seem familiar to readers of Joyce's own work.