Alice Kavounas: Ornament of Asia Click on covers for more information.
Published
2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610613 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
In Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian moments, expressed in vivid, precise language.
Following on from The Invited (Sinclair-Stevenson), with its "brilliant
lyrical style" (Alan Brownjohn), Alice Kavounas has deepened and widened
her range. She writes from an unusual perspective: a New Yorker whose father
escaped from his idyllic birthplace in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire
to build a new life in America.
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Cralan Kelder Give Some Word
Published
2010. Paperback, 96pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611443 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some Word is no exception; equal parts distilled language, contrary, and pushing everyday language out of conformity. Humor lurks just below the surface in many these shorter, condensed poems.
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David Kennedy (editor): Necessary Steps
Published
2007. Paperback, 192pp, 9x6ins £12.95 / $23.
ISBN 9781905700639
A collection of essays, several of which previously appeared in David Kennnedy’s magazine The Paper, revolving around poetry, walking, elegy and the spiritual. Contributors are Andrea Brady, Ian Davidson & Zoë Skoulding, John Hall, Sarah Law, Jennifer Moxley, Stuart Mugridge, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Malcolm Phillips, Peter Riley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Josh Robinson, Jane Routh, Penelope Shuttle, Lawrence Upton and Stephen Vincent.
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Kenny Knight: The Honicknowle Book of the Dead
Published
2009. Paperback, 108pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610170 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Connoisseurs of the arcane will no doubt wonder what it is about Plymouth and Buddhism: first Lobsang Rampa, a.k.a. Cyril Henry Hoskins, self-styled bodily host to a reincarnated Tibetan lama, and now Kenny Knight's frequent invocations of the Dalai Lama—occasionally accompanied by Ruth Padel—in a new Book of the Dead. While Nirvana might be hard to reach in this suburban district of Plymouth, the highlight of which is a misplaced 19th century fort, Honicknowle nonetheless reaches the status of myth in this debut collection of poems. The Honicknowle Book of the Dead is where memory, movies, television and 1960s' rock bands merge into a surreal narrative; it is where Lorna Doone and Louis Aragon share pages with Hank Marvin and Elvis Presley, where the local poetry scene announces its presence, and where—in an alternate universe—Ted Heath led Britain into the Common Market, Ted Heath, the band-leader, that is. For memory is confusion, and being young is confusing, and poetry is rarely anything but confusion. Welcome to extraordinary world of Kenny Knight.
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Alfred Kolleritsch: Selected Poems
Translated from German by Iain Galbraith
Published 2007. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700301
The first English-language survey of Austrian poet Alfred Kolleritsch's work. Kolleritsch is the doyen of the Graz literary scene, and editor of the indispensable magazine manuskripte, for decades one of the major German-language literary/poetic journals.
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Zbigniew Kotowicz: Fernando Pessoa – Voices of a Nomadic Soul
Published
2008. Paperback, 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700318 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A second, revised edition of the Menard volume from 1996, with an updated bibliography. Zbigniew Kotowicz's study of Pessoa was the first extended treatment of Pessoa's poetry in English, and it remains an important volume, offering anglophone readers a path into the complexities of the poet's work. Uniform in design with the rest of the Shearsman Pessoa series, this volume also features portrait drawings—and a cover painting—of Pessoa by the English artist Aldous Eveleigh.
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José Kozer Anima
Translated
from Spanish by Peter Boyle. Bilingual edition.
Published 2011. Paperback, 268pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848611467 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A sixty-year-old man writes a poem and entitles it 'Anima'. Days later he
writes another poem with a tone similar to the first, entitles it 'Anima',
then realises he has just begun a series which must all bear the same title.
Furthermore, the
man decides that in the future and till the day of his death he is going to
continue writing poems that, since they have this tone, will bear the title
'Anima'. At the end of a year, having written some 150 poems, he extracts from
the accumulated mass 60 poems called 'Anima'. (José Kozer)
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Nancy Kuhl: The Wife of the Left Hand
Published
2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700066 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
In her first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, the poet Nancy Kuhl explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught between the quotidian and the uncanny. In language that is by turns sensual and spare, elegant and oneiric, the images and music of this collection reveal and recast the daily ambiguities of living with others, "the fragile arrangement all blue / at the seams," and the uncertain line between the hidden and the apparent, like a "house / with its unswerving spine exposed."
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Nancy Kuhl Suspend
Published
2010. Paperback, 96pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610866 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
"Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, Suspend is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling. In this collection of poems, fragments, prose, askew children's verse, and insomniac's jottings, Kuhl privileges the difficult inquiry of the whole book over the jewel-like quality of her 'finished verse'. The work often feels manic, written down as quickly as the unconscious gives its fragments of memories connected to an insomniac's roving/raving mind; then, in extraordinary counterpoint, the poems assemble the urgent fractures of the diary-like notes into verse of remarkable formal beauty and integrity." —Dan Beachy-Quick
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philip kuhn: at maimonides table
Published
2009. Paperback, 148pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848610200 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
at maimonides table is constructed out of a complex
series of unstable texts woven through four inter-locking books. Although
there is no easily defined path through this work there is perhaps a half-remembered
clew, in book two, which takes as its starting point the well known Talmudic
story of the four who entered the "garden"—a parable which
can also be read for the dangers confronting those who seek PaRaDiSe. Here
is an exploration of an im/possible ethics of messianic faith promising earthly
redemption through those four exegetical portals of Talmudic reading. But
such messianic longing also sits uneasily when cast in the shadows of a history
steeped in so much pain & suffering.
Whilst this long book-length poem appears to confront specifically Jewish
themes it can also be read and thought-through in non-denominational ways,
not least because at its core lie questions concerning how we (individually
and collectively) might still learn to become ourselves in peaceful relationship
with others.
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R.F. Langley: Journals
Published
2006. 9x6ins, 144pp. £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9781905700004 [Download a sample
PDF from this book here.]
R.F. Langley's Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2000) was one of the poetic highlights of recent times, showing a sometimes sceptical public that a contemporary poet could still engage with the shades of Modernism and produce fascinating and original work. Throughout his life, the author has been maintaining a journal, which is part diary, part autobiography and part commonplace book; some extracts from these fascinating volumes have been appearing in P N Review since 2002. This book offers a number of selections, ranging in time from 1970 to 2005, which will give admirers of his poetry a clearer idea of the author's other writings, which run in parallel with his poetry and sometimes provide the underpinnings for it.
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Maryrose Larkin The Name of This Intersection is Frost
Published
2010. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611177 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Monochromatic kaleidoscope of winter. Limited components revolving, generating a shifting mosaic that replicates the passage of the winter days themselves. A modeling of time, its observable passage through the observations of weather, interior and exterior. Seasons, shifting in microns, are the recurring vocabulary of time itself. This limited vocabulary, the vocabulary of nearly identical instants, forms the center of time's concealed circularity. To make this available in language requires a particular patience of attention. There are few elements on the face of the traditional watch—the action is circular and repetitive. The elements of late winter—what we can perceive—do perceive—arrive, if closely observed, on a sparsely adorned cylinder. There is a mathematics to the passage of time—a sense of odds—percentages—chances—intrinsic in time's forward motion. Yet, how can this strange, wondrous circularity be expressed on the page—where word must follow word—the project of the poem may be to arrange a paradox we live beside in such a way that we can enter it, inhabit it, view it intentionally, from the inside.
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Peter Larkin: Leaves of Field
Published
2006. 8x5ins, 116pp. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562979 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Leaves of Field contains three long sequences: the title poem, plus 'Open Woods' and 'Moving Woods', which together represent Peter Larkin's most recent forays into the eco-poetic field that he has made very much his own. This is a poetry that is both radical and luminous, blending scientific discourse with more expected poetic approaches. To write about nature in the contemporary world it is no longer possible to admire it from afar. In these poems nature is examined at an almost microscopic level, seen from within.
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Sarah Law: Ascension Notes
Published
2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610781 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
This collection makes a place for space and light. Language ascends and reflects back on itself in short lyrical poems and longer fragmented sequences. A woman, at a table, writing; Woolf's phrase echoes through these lines. Meditations on creativity and spirituality are as open-ended as the forms they take: the conclusion reached is one of the necessity of 'making the sign of the poet' in an always shifting and strangely illuminated human world.
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Published
2006. 8.5x5.5ins, 116pp. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562825 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Prepare for some adventures in Perihelion. These poems evoke shifting states of mind and heart, from childhood terrors to the wisdom of the mystic, with all the twists of love, doubt and insight which come in between. There are monsters in this collection (but are they generated by science-fiction or the psyche?); there is grace, there is art, and there is longing. In her writing, Sarah Law traces the dynamics of relationship and of solitude, pushing lyric poetry to a playful complexity, but allowing the poignancy of our human condition to flow through each poem. Perihelion is Sarah Law's third collection.
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D.H. Lawrence Look! We Have Come Through!
Introduced
by Jeremy Hooker
Published May 2011. Paperback, 126pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848611566 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Lawrence ... describes the poems [in this first collection of his unrhymed poems] as "intended as an essential story, or history, or confession", the critical experience occurring in the period of, "roughly, the sixth lustre of a man's life"—that is, from the age of 25 to 30. His Argument emphasizes the dramatic nature of the sequence. He speaks of "the protagonist" and of "the conflict of love and hate [that] goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness". Foreword and Argument complement each other: Look! is both a personal confession and a drama. In both respects, it is closely related to the three novels which belong to the same period, 1912–1917. (From Jeremy Hooker's Introduction)
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D.H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts and Flowers
Introduced
by Jeremy Hooker
Published May 2011. Paperback, 180pp, 9x6ins, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781848611573 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile—in Italy, France, Germany and the United States—this long collection occupies a crucial place in the development of his poetry and is that rarest of creations: a masterpiece of modernist nature writing. This version offers the full text of the first British edition (which included the poems from Tortoises, excluded from the US edition). The prose prefaces, composed for a later re-issue are also included.
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D.H. Lawrence Studies in Classic American Literature
Introduced
by Jon Thompson
Published May 2011. Paperback, 196pp, 9x6ins, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781848611580 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Studies in Classic American Literature [...] is at once a work
of cultural criticism, a study and critique of American myths, a meditation
on the relationship between the Old World and the New, a new theory of the
self, a theory of textuality (and a fearless demonstration of a radical,
self-styled form of psycho-social criticism), a theory of art, a history
of America, a critique of the Enlightenment and one of the greatest covert
autobiographies in world literature (all the writers in the book represent
either versions of Lawrence's self or versions of himself he felt he had
to liberate). And, of course, it is a bravura interpretation of "classic" American
texts, one of the most innovative and penetrating critical performances of
modern times.
—from Jon Thompson's Introduction.
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Mary Leader Beyond the Fire
Published
2010. Paperback, 88pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611221 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
The work in Mary Leader's third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own territory and its own terms. Some poems are straightforward narratives, while others repeat spells and castings. Many are figural; some are classical; some even aspire to anonymity. The book is designed to range the globe and fathom the centuries, albeit, in the end, the poet's settlement is but a momentary locality.
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Published
October 2010. Paperback, 210pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $22
ISBN 9781848611313 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Karin Lessing — born in Germany, raised in the USA, and resident for decades in France — is one of those poets who exist outside the tides of literary fashion, and indeed beyond the ken of most readers, although she has a devoted band of supporters, among whom your editor at Shearsman Books must be counted. Her last two collections were published here, and this survey of her entire writing career, which brings together all of her books, together with a number of uncollected poems, is vital to reaching an understanding of her work.
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Karin Lessing: The Winter Dream Journals
Published 1991. A5 Paperback, 40pp. £5.00 / $9.95.
ISBN 9780907562801
The second full-length collection by this woefully under-recognised expatriate American poet, following on from her early Montemora collection, The Fountain (1982).
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Karin Lessing: In the Aviary of Voices
Published 2001. A5 Paperback, 62pp. £ 6.50 / $9.
ISBN 9780907562313
In the Aviary of Voices is Karen Lessing's third full-length collection, and her first for ten years.
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Emma Lew: Anything the Landlord Touches
Published
2006. 8.5x5.5ins, 80pp. £ 8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562924 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
First published in Australia by Giramondo Publishing of Sydney, this collection won two prestigious awards – the 2003 C.J. Dennis Award (the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry) and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award (the Queensland Premier's Prize for Poetry). The author's second collection, Anything the Landlord Touches is a tour-de-force full of extraordinary visions.
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Ira Lightman: Duetcetera
Published
2008. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610118 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Duetcetera is about voices taking each other for granted, saying "etc etc" and not listening, nevertheless turning out to duet. It contains double- and multi-columned poems, where each column can be read in its own right (or left), and also read across the columns. Most of the poems (and translations) were written separately from each other, but happen to fit together. The poems play separately in different rhythms and moods yet sound with and against each other.
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Gerry Loose: Printed on Water — New & Selected Poems
Published
2007. Paperback, 144pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9781905700073 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A timely retrospective of a Glasgow poet, whose work should be better known outside Scotland. A mixture of ecology, politics, and meditation make these poems very much of our time. The book selects from 30 years of work.
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Gerry Loose: that person himself
Published
2009. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610385 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
A fox hears voices. A dogfox of indeterminate gender careers round desert USA, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in stolen cars & on foot. A barkingdog talks out loud & sings. A demotic fox listens & listens. A coyotefox lies. A coyote speaks truth. A kitfox reads the signs & tunes the car radio. Kitsune eats & drinks. They are all that person himself, who is also summoner of kingfishers, bringer of acorns, old compound eye, the one geese kiss & the drinker of aftershock. that person himself wanders in atom-bomb test sites, mooches in nuclear weapon fallout, from bar to deer park, from festival to razed landscape.
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Helen Lopez: Shift Perception
Published
2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610736 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Helen Lopez is a painter and poet who lives in Anglesey. This collection is her first book, but she has a long track-record as a painter with one-person exhibitions in England and Wales, and representation in a number of group exhibitions in Ireland, Belgium and the USA.
"Shift Perception dares you to do precisely that: to change perceptual and linguistic gear. But you'll find you know more about its processes than you expect. And you won't have read anything like it before. This collection relentlessly reminds us exactly how powerful a tool language can be, in any number of different hands; I haven't read poetry as provocative or as exciting as this in a long while." —Alice Entwistle
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Pura López-Colomé: Aurora
Translated
from Spanish by Jason Stumpf
Published 2007. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700387 [Download
a sample PDF from this book here.]
Aurora was first published in Mexico City in 1994 by Ediciones Equilibrista, and was the author's third full-length collection. Her entire output has since been collected in Mexico in a single volume Música inaudita.
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Tony Lopez Only More So
Published
January 2012. Paperback, 260pp, 9x6ins, £12.95. Not for sale in the
USA or Canada.
ISBN 9781848611887 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
In this twenty-first century poem, Tony Lopez samples and seamlessly combines writings from many fields of science and culture, composing by means of intuitive and discreet intervention something quite unique. In a review of Darwin (one 10% section of Only More So) Ron Silliman described this writing as "the most exquisitely constructed prose I've ever read—more lush than Proust"; he wrote that it “just might be the most beautiful poetry collection ever written". Only More So engages the darkest aspects of human nature, extinction and genocide; it may also be the first Constructivist poem composed on the pleasure principle.
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Tony Lopez False Memory
Published
January 2011. Paperback, 120pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17. 2nd edition.
ISBN 9781848611948 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
"[…] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year
[was] Tony Lopez's False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging
and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes
hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge."
—Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003."
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Tony Lopez & Anthony Caleshu (editors): Poetry and Public Language
Published
2007. Paperback, 320pp, 9x6ins £15.95 / $26.
ISBN-13 9781905700646
A collection of essays and papers delivered at the University of Plymouth’s eponymous conference in April 2007. Contributors include Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, Allen Fisher, Richard Kerridge, Peter Middleton, Robert Hampson, William Rowe, Andrea Brady, Robert Sheppard, Ian Davidson, Carrie Etter, Scott Thurston, Ian Davidson, Philip Terry and several others.
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Tom Lowenstein: Conversation with Murasaki
Published
2009. Paperback, 116pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610651 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of Ancestors and Species, Tom Lowenstein's new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances.
A long expensive journey. The landscape
grown stranger. A space at the end
where there's no more to interpret.
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Tom Lowenstein: Ancestors and Species. New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry
Published
2005. Paperback, 9x6ins,
152pp, £9.95
/ $176.
ISBN 9780907562740 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Ancestors and Species makes it clear that Tom Lowenstein is one of Britain's most remarkable poetic voices, fascinating and impossible to categorise.
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Rupert Loydell (ed.) From Hepworth's Garden Out
Published
2010. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611245
From Rupert Loydell's first visit to this small Cornish harbour town—an event recorded in one of the poems included in this book—he, along with many others, has been fascinated by the combination of sea, light, people and painting that constitute St. Ives. These themes, along with tourism & trade, myth and the nature of creativity itself, are the subject of this anthology, which has at its heart the sculptor Barbara Hepworth's garden and studio, now run by the Tate as a small museum. It is a secluded and magical place, however full of visitors, and it is from this small green oasis and its stone and metal inhabitants that this book starts its winding journey. Having explored Hepworth's garden and studied individual works of art, there follow introductions to painters such as Peter Lanyon, Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson, the poet W.S. Graham, and finally a view of 'the whole of the town'.
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Rupert Loydell: Boombox
Published
2009. Paperback, 112pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610583 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
"There's something about [these] poems ... that I find fascinating. His style is laconic, undemonstrative, but under the style is an enquiring mind and a sense of the strangeness of language. [H]e can be as plain as a pikestaff, deeply personal, and move into the mysterious use of technical language, culled from his own enormous reading. His use of collage to create many of his texts never seems forced or clever in any way; it somehow seems to flow together into a poem that investigates, subtly and without you noticing mostly, what the possibilities of language are in describing, or rather connoting, the world of phenomena."—Brando's Hat
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Rupert M Loydell: An Experiment in Navigation
Published
2008. Paperback, 148pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10.95 / $18.50;
ISBN 9781905700943 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
Rupert Loydell's second Shearsman collection is another large compendium of his many-faceted experimental writing.
'Loydell renders with equal deftness the plainsong of direct statement and melodious phrasal waves of speech. While he acknowledges that it is ". . . easier to map out fictions and wallow in distant clouds that deal with linear time", Loydell gives terra firma its full due. His work displays engagement with the figurative "folded pocket map".' (Sheila E. Murphy)
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Rupert M. Loydell: A Conference of Voices
Published
2004. Paperback, 9x6ins, 137pp, £9.95
/ $17.
ISBN 9780907562566 [Download a sample PDF from this
book here.]
The latest collection by this energetic poet-artist-editor-publisher, whose poetic voice is one that has to be reckoned with in the new century. Rupert Loydell is editor of Stride and publisher of Stride Books. Conference includes two full collections: one, the title collection, which concentrates on his more lyrical voice, and the second, Multiple Exposure, which is devoted to a more experimental turn of work.
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Rupert M. Loydell Wildlife
Published
April 2011. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611528 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
In these mercurial poems, real and imaginary events combine with overheard, quoted and misquoted voices to produce a slippery and unreliable series of opinionated poems. What appear at first to be heartfelt confessions reveal themselves to be exercises in ventriloquism, argumentative fictions that seek to subvert and surprise the reader. This poetry is a different kind of beast to what you might have expected.
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