Anthony Barnett: Miscanthus. Selected and New Poems Click on covers for more information.
Published
January 2005. Paperback, 251pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £11.95 / $20
ISBN 9780907562559
A long-overdue survey of Anthony Barnett's work, this book provides a welcome opportunity for new readers to get to know his singular art – he is like no other poet of his generation writing in the UK, but both his elliptical lyrics and his work in longer spans should be part of the current consensus as to what constitutes modern English poetry.
Peter Cole: What is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998
Published
2005. 212pp, paperback, 9x6ins. £10.95 / $18.50.
ISBN 9780907562795
This volume gathers between a single set of covers the two highly praised books of poems published by Peter Cole in the United States — Rift and Hymns & Qualms. The doubling of its title, however, runs deeper, and reflects Cole's long engagement with the cultures of Jerusalem and linkage at every level. Whether a poem takes up the patterns of bird flight, the Eros of speech, or the slaughter of Muslim worshippers by a Jewish settler in Hebron, the poet's concern throughout has been with forms of offering and strategies of sustenance.
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Peter Dent: Handmade Equations
Published
2005.Paperback 8.5x5.5ins, 100pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9780907562658
A collection of over eighty poems written since the beginning of the new century, this book showcases Peter Dent's remarkable investigations into the possibilities of the modern lyric and the possibilities of language.
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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, £12.95 / $21.
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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Tony Frazer (ed): Shearsman 63 & 64
Paperback,
84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £7.50 / $12.50
ISBN 9780907562481
The first in the magazine's new format — shaped like a book, and also available as a book through the trade, as well as by direct purchase from the press or on subscription. Featured writers are: Giles Goodland, Gad Hollander, Philip Jenkins, Gordon Kennedy, Sarah Law, Rupert M. Loydell, Frances Presley, Sam Sampson, Lisa Samuels, Robert Saxton, John Seed, Spencer Selby. The issue also contains a number of translations, of Gastón Baquero (by Mark Weiss), Alberto Blanco (by Joan Lindgren), Peter Huchel (by Harry Guest), Lutz Seiler and Anja Utler (by Tony Frazer), and Robert Walser (by Christopher Middleton).
Tony Frazer (ed): Shearsman 65 & 66
Paperback,
108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.50 / 13.50
ISBN 9780907562764
The second publication in the magazine's new format. Featured writers are: Arlene Ang, Louis Armand, isobel Armstrong, James Bell, David Berridge, Chris Brownsword, Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Carrie Etter, Harry Guest, D.S, Marriott, Chris McCabe, Anna Mochovakis, Edward Mycue, Simon Perril, Rochelle Ratner, Maurtice Scully, Rob Stanton, Scott Thurston, Elizabeth Treadwell, Carolyn van Langenberg and Craig Watson. The issue also contains translations of Ilhan Berk (by George Messo), Yves Bonnefoy (by Peter Boyle), José Kozer (by Mark Weiss), Boris Poplavsky (by Belinda Cooke & Richard McKane), and César Vallejo (by Michael Smith & Valentino Gianuzzi).
David Jaffin: These Time-Shifting Thoughts
Published
2005. 215x135mm paperback, 214pp, £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562689
Jaffin's secenth collection of his trademark short-lined lyrics with Shearsman.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.