Alice Kavounas: Ornament of Asia
Published
September 2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610613
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.
David Kennedy (editor): Necessary Steps Click on covers for more information, where available.
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
April 2009. Paperback, 108pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610170
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
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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Nancy Kuhl: The Wife of the Left Hand
Published
2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700066
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." Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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philip kuhn: at maimonides table
Published
February 2009. Paperback, 148pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781848610200
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
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Peter Larkin: Leaves of Field
Published
2006. 8x5ins, 116pp. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562979
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here
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Sarah Law: Ascension Notes
Published
November 2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610781
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.
Sarah Law: Perihelion
Published
2006. 8.5x5.5ins, 116pp. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562825
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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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
April 2006. 8.5x5.5ins, 80pp. £ 8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562924
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Ira Lightman: Duetcetera
Published
2008. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610118
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
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
May 2009. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610385
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
September 2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610736
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
Pura López-Colomé: Aurora
Translated
from Spanish by Jason Stumpf
Published 2007. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700387
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Tony Lopez & Anthony Caleshu (editors): Poetry and Public Language
Published
2007. Paperback, 320pp, 9x6ins £15.95 / $26.
ISBN-13 9781905700646; ISBN-10 1905700644
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
October 2009. Paperback, 116pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610651
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.
Tom Lowenstein: Ancestors and Species. New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry
Published
2005. Paperback, 9x6ins,
152pp, £9.95
/ $176.
ISBN 9780907562740
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Rupert Loydell: Boombox
Published
September 2009. Paperback, 112pp, 9x6ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610583
"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
Rupert M Loydell: An Experiment in Navigation
Published
2008. Paperback, 148pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10.95 / $18.50; ISBN 9781905700943
Rupert Loydell's second Shearsman collection is another large compendium of his many-faceted experimental writing. Download a sample PDF from this book here
'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
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. Download a sample PDF from this book here
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Jill Magi: Torchwood
Published
2008. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700547
A second collection, and first from Shearsman, by this Brooklyn-based poet, artist and small-press publisher.
While Torchwood documents the loss of a religion and at times, the loss of language, it gathers hope as it goes. The mostly serial works in this collection explore the possibility of faith in humanity—colleagues, classmates, strangers, lovers—attempting a language of clear-seeing and shared spirit. A poetry of inner and outer worlds, of the diary and of the subway, Torchwood moves between the sentence and its trust in storytelling, and the fragment—evidence of the need to create silence in order to tell. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Mai Cheng: Selected Poems
Published
2008. Paperback, 140pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700882
A bilingual (English & Chinese) collection by Dalian-based poet-editor, Mai Cheng. This is his first collection to be made available in translation.
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Phil Maillard: Sweet Dust & Growling Lambs
Published
2008. Paperback, 148pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700837
"Looking at this collection, Sweet Dust And Growling Lambs, I think I can perceive a few recurrent themes. The first relates to mythology, in a broad, story-telling kind of fashion. Of recent years, 'myths' have been regarded as universal, because archetypal, repositories of human experience. From there, it's a short step to the idea of 'fusion', of combining elements from different cultures in a single work. This is most familiar in music. In my poem The 'Confession' Of Gerald, for example, the Celtic story of Elidorus and his meeting with the fairy folk is developed by way of a Buddhist teaching story." (Phil Maillard)
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Stéphane Mallarmé: Sonnets
Published
2008. Paperback, 128pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700424
Translated by David Scott
A fully bilingual edition of Mallarmé's Sonnets, with introduction and notes designed for the undergraduate. An ideal way to find one's way into Mallarmé's engagement with this particular form. Download a sample from this book to your desktop.
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D.S. Marriott: Hoodoo Voodoo
Published
2008. Paperback, 140pp, 9x6 ins, £9.95 / $17.00
ISBN 9781905700790
D.S. Marriott's second collection, and first with Shearsman. With an introduction by Romana Huk, in which she says:
"D.S. Marriott 'dares to dream' in this book . . . by refolding beautiful
romantic lines . . . into new relation with the real that haunts him, which
he attends through mourning and recasts in an art full of loss. These poems
do indeed seem to 'contain the whole of death, even before / life has begun',
but they engage no refusal, just the overturning of willful stasis and a
lyric luring of the undone into poetic doing, to light. Hoodoo Voodoo's last
section's dark streaming of figures through landscapes . . .
I'm overwhelmed by the beauty that is this book." Download
a sample from this book to your desktop.
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Joseph Massey: Areas of Fog
Published
April 2009. Paperback, 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $16
ISBN 9781848610521
One needs only to watch and listen in gratitude as poems informed by Bronk, Niedecker, Olson (to name a few), and the landscape of Humboldt County, California take shape "In the room / of a memory // of a room" in Joseph Massey's first full-length collection, Areas of Fog.
"Joseph Massey sees with a composer's eye and sings in a microtonality all his own. Syllable by syllable phenomena miraculously unfold. This is fantastic work, understated, charmed, and open. The world simply happens in these poems and its moments are tuned marvels. You don't want to miss it." —Peter Gizzi
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Sophie Mayer: Her Various Scalpels
Published
May 2009. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610408
These poems usher you into an intimate cinema where Gertrude Stein kisses Patti Smith. Where a bird steps through the screen and becomes a girl, where a girl moulds a cock and becomes a city, where a city striated with cinema becomes a glacier, where a glacier sits in the red velvet seats and sees herself as a star. In her mind imagined films take flight, cast from salt and swans. Stepping out of the darkness, she trips into blackouts over lines scratched into celluloid. Wrought as and from fragments—coinages, echoes, attitudes, glimpses—these poems collage new ways (or waves) of seeing.
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Deborah Meadows: involutia
Published
2007. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700196
Deborah Meadows' fourth collection is a rigorous and spellbinding series of poems: innovative, experimental, and featuring such unexpected collisions as Luce Irigaray & Gilles Deleuze encountering zen philosophy.
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Deborah Meadows: Goodbye Tissues
Published
2009. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610132
"From Anglo-Saxon diphthongs to that mysterious three-dimensional mirrored state of being, the enantiomorph, from Aquinas to Hölderlin to California, Deborah Meadows takes us on a journey through the tissues of memory and the patchwork of images that make up our contemporary world of learning, consuming and creating." — John Tranter
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Victor Manuel Mendiola: Selected Poems
Published
2008. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700899
Translated by Ruth Fainlight, Jennifer Clement and others.
This is the first collection in the UK for Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola, although his work has been appearing in small-press editions, in others' collections and in journals for some time. His collected poems Tan oro y ogro (1987–2002) (UNAM, Mexico City) won New York's Premio Latino de Literatura (Latino Literature Prize) in 2005. This Selected shows the full range of his work, but begins with his astonishing erotic long poem 'Tu Mano Mi Boca' (Your Hand, My Mouth), which was so well received in Ruth Fainlight's translation when it was included in her latest collection of poems.
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George Messo (ed): Ikinci Yeni — The Turkish Avant-Garde
Published
November 2009. Paperback, 168pp, 9x6ins, £11.95 / $20.00
ISBN 9781848610668
In the mid-1950s a small but energetic group of young Turkish poets exploded into creative life. Their vivid, cosmopolitan experimentalism sent shock waves through the literary establishment. They became known as the Ikinci Yeni (The Second New). Inspired by surrealism and the contemporary European avant-garde, their influence was widespread and lasting—Turkish poetry would never be the same again.
In this unique anthology George Messo introduces broad selections from five of the leading Ikinci Yeni poets: Ece Ayhan, Ilhan Berk, Edip Cansever, Cemal Süreya and Turgut Uyar.
George Messo: Entrances
Published
2006. Paperback 8x5ins, 83pp, £8.95
/ $15.
ISBN 9780907562900
The author's second collection, Entrances is a remarkable follow-up to the highly-praised debut collection, From the Pine Observatory. As Peter Didsbury says of it: "It seems to me that Messo is somehow bringing a whole region and set of cultures back into the European sphere. Any book which so beautifully invents for us the Choruh River and eleventh-centry Georgia is OK by me."
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George Messo: Hearing Still
Published
May 2009. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610224
The Middle East, both real and imagined, forms the background against which George Messo's third collection, Hearing Still, shapes its recurring themes: silence, destruction, resistance, and endurance. The poems are, at times, as sparse as the landscapes they inhabit; fragile breaths quivering at the edge of worlds driven by catastrophe and restored by human dignity. Ranging through Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine, to the gravel deserts of Oman, and the desolate coastal plains of the Arabian Gulf, Messo's uniquely strange and illusive vision is at once mysterious and distressing.
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Christopher Middleton: Palavers & A Nocturnal Journal
Published
2004. Paperback, 151pp, 9x6ins. £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9780907562511
Christopher Middleton is one of the finest living British poets and this volume presents the voice of the man behind a remarkable body of work, firstly talking to poet Marius Kociejowski, and then talking to himself – 18 months' worth of journal entries from the late 1990s, in which he muses on matters poetic, social, political. The book also includes an essay-memoir by Marius Kociejowski that traces the growth of his fascination with Middleton's art. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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David Miller: The Waters of Marah. Selected Prose 1973-1995
Published
2005. Paperback, 113pp, 8.5x 5.5ins. £8.95. Not
for sale in North America.
ISBN 9780907562665
The Waters of Marah brings together the best of David Miller's non-poetic output. The prose here however does include work that would be classified as prose-poetry in most quarters, as well as the longer work Tesserae which could be better described as experimental fiction. These pieces tend also to have verse interludes, which further confuses the definition of what category they actually belong to. In the end however, categories are irrelevant, and the work can be read on its own terms, be it prose, be it prose-poetry, be it fiction, be it poetry. This is musical work that explores the parameters of the sayable in a manner that does not repel the reader but rather draws him/her in as a participant in a remarkable enterprise.
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Billy Mills: Five Easy Pieces
Published 1997. A5 Paperback, 32pp. £4.50.
ISBN 9780907562221
Five Easy Pieces provides a very accessible opening into Mills' work, with all of his main themes and devices present: the found text, the expressive use of space on the page, the landscape as source and record, the personal lyric . . . (Randolph Healy, Orbis).
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Billy Mills: Lares / Manes — Collected Poems
Published
July 2009. Paperback, 360pp, 9x6ins, £13.95 / $22
ISBN 9781848610460
Billy Mills was born in Dublin in 1954. After spending some time in Spain and the UK, he now lives and works in the mid-west of Ireland. This collection brings together his seven previously published volumes, which have been revised and corrected, plus a selection of newer, previously uncollected work.
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John Muckle: Firewriting and other poems
Published
2005. Paperback, 130pp, 9x6ins. £9.95
/ $17
ISBN 9780907562641
This first collection of John Muckle's poetry, written 1998-2004, begins with a sequence about working in Care Homes, continues with poems whose literary subject matter ranges from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Coleridge and Philip K. Dick, reflections on life, love and politics, and closes with 'Firewriting', a long poem which imagines that German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin managed to escape over the Franco-Spanish border in 1940 and has ended up in contemporary London. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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