Lutz Seiler: In the year one – Selected Poems Click on covers for more information.
Translated from the German by Tony Frazer
Published in Australia, 2005, by Giramondo Publishing, Sydney; distributed
in the UK by Shearsman Books.)
Paperback, 93pp, 6.7x5.9ins. £8.00. $A20 in Australia. ISBN
9781920882112
The first book-length colection of Lutz Seiler's work in English translation, In the year one contains poems drawn from his second and third German collections: pech & blende (2000) and vierzig kilometer nacht (2003).
Colin Simms: The American Poems
Published
2005. Paperback 9.25x7.5ins, 208pp. £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9780907562931
This volume is another retrospective edition of the work of Colin Simms, covering his North American poems and showcasing his six long poems on Amerindian themes: Rushmore Inhabitation, No Northwestern Passage, Parflèche, Missouri River Songs, A Celebration of the Stones in a Water-Course and Carcajou. While these poems still demonstrate the author's remarkable use of language they also show his engagement with open-field poetics, an aptly American format for the wide open spaces of the Great Plains and the all-encompassing narrative that he spins for the reader. To these long poems are added more than 50 shorter poems on connected themes, drawn from throughout the poet's career.
César Vallejo: Trilce
Translated & edited by Michael Smith & Valentino
Gianuzzi
Published 2005. Paperback, 256pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.95 /
$21.
ISBN 9780907562726
Trilce is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters, as The Waste Land and The Cantos in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru. Full of neologisms and symbols, the book is one that needs to be re-translated often, but this is only the second version to appear in the UK, and the fourth in the USA. A fully bilingual book, the Spanish texts are based upon the very latest scholarship, and are presented with full explanatory annotations for the English-speaking reader. Apart from the canonical text of 'Trilce', the book also includes an appendix of a further eleven poems, some of which are earlier variants and some which are poems connected to the main text, which it is useful to have available as background to the canonical version of Trilce.
César Vallejo: Complete Later Poems 1923-1938
Translated & edited by Michael Smith & Valentino
Gianuzzi
Published 2005. Paperback, 420pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £16.95 /
$28.
ISBN 9780907562733
This volume brings together all of the post-Trilce work that has been identified by the latest scholarship and included in the most recent Peruvian edition of the author's works. The Spanish texts have benefitted from a number of corrections, as compared to previous publications. The poems are presented chronologically — as far as the chronology can be ascertained — and the book offers the most complete version yet of this magnificent body of work.
Dirk van Bastelaere: The Last to Leave – Selected Poems
Translated by Willem Groenewegen, John Irons and Francis R Jones
Published 2005. 119pp, paperback. £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9780907562702
Dirk van Bastelaere (1960) is one of the leading poets in Flanders. He came to prominence with his award-winning first collection Vijf jaar (1984) and then published Pornschlegel en andere gedichten (1988), one of the most hotly debated collections of Flemish poetry in recent times. This volume was to win for him recognition as the most important postmodern poet in Flanders. In 2000, he published Hartswedervaren, widely regarded as his finest book to date, and for which he was awarded the Flemish Culture Prize. His latest collection, Zapruder Stress, appeared in Amsterdam in 2005.
Catherine Walsh: City West
Published
2005. 84pp, paperback. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9780907562542
Irish poet Catherine Walsh is noted for her long poems in experimental forms, and City West, completed in 2000, is her most recent such work, following Pitch (Pig Press, 1994) and Idir Eatortha (Invisible Books, 1996). Previously City West was only available in an Irish small-press edition, with a tiny print-run. A subsequent text, Optic Verve will be published by Shearsman in the future.
Nigel Wheale: Raw Skies. New & Selected Poems
Published
2005. 148pp, 9x6ins, paperback. £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9780907562757
Raw Skies spans seven sequences of poems, written between 1979 and 2004, together with translations from the classical Arabic poet al-Mutanabbí (304—354 AH, 915—965 CE) made by Walid Abdul-Hamid and the author. Other books by Nigel Wheale are The Postmodern Arts (Routledge 1995) and Writing and Society. Literacy, Print and Politics 1590—1660 (Routledge 1999). His press, 'infernal methods', has published pamphlets and collections since the 1970s, including work by John Welch, Peter Riley and R. F. Langley.
Yang Lian (ed.): Sailor's Home
Published
2005. Paperback, 132pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9780907562863
A Sailor's Home suggests many years of travel, cross-cultural contacts, a place of rest after too much time spent on the high seas. This particular Sailor's Home is a record of a private poetry festival held in London in October 2005 at which six poets came together with a group of invited guests to read and discuss one other's work. This miscellany of the work written for the occasion is presented in the original languages and in English translation.