Martin Anderson: The Hoplite Journals Click on covers for more information.
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136pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9780907562818
This prose sequence, The Hoplite Journals, the first volume of an ongoing project of the same name, is characterised by rapid temporal and spatial shifts amidst observed and imagined realities. It returns again and again, however, to meditate upon notions of identity and of memory, of time and of space.
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Fred Beake: New and Selected Poems.
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143pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9780907562986
Fred Beake has been writing since the late Sixties, and this New and Selected
provides a much needed overview of a constantly developing body of work.
About a third of the book is given over to the very fresh and colourful
poems that have been written since the author's move to South Devon in 2003.
Beake has maintained an interest throughout
his career in the short, often very visual lyric; but has also written off-beat
fictions around particular characters, and very musical longer pieces such
as 'Marona' and 'Towards the West' that reflect (if at a distance) the poet's
early interest in the French Surrealists. This is an unusual poetry, and hard
to place in terms of the modern scene. It occupies a position that is equidistant
between the Imagists and Objectivists, the Surrealists, and much older things.
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Mary Coghill: Designed to Fade
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9x6ins, 120pp. £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700059
Designed to Fade is a narrative poem about life in the modern city of London, a journey through a day in London seen through a woman's eyes. The drama begins in the early hours and ends at the same time the following day. Referring to city poetry by other poets and experimenting with poetic form in an attempt to develop a women's poetry of the city, the author has developed an intriguing post-modernist slant to the dramatic unities of time, place and character. As city dweller you will find yourself in here. There are place names, descriptions of commuter journeys and brushes with authority, work and bosses which will evoke an empathy that modern poetry has all too often omitted to express. Designed to Fade is a stylistic tour-de-force, and a most unusual sequence of poems. Download a sample of work from this book.
Andrew Duncan: Savage Survivals amid modern suavity
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8.5x5.5ins, 116pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700035
Here are arcane mysteries, here are forgotten histories; here are assorted arcana and incunabula; and here there is a transposition of a Chinese classic to contemporary Glasgow, filtered through the mesh of a Chinese martial-arts movie. And what connects aerial photography, growing up in the Turkic lands, and sound-poetry (the difficulties of)? — Andrew Duncan's imagination, which ranges far and wide, but always brings back news of interesting climes, and landhaps even the poets' heads do grow beneath their shoulders.
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Ken Edwards: No Public Language – Selected Poems 1975-1995
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8.5x5.5ins, 184pp, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781905700011
The author says of this Selected: "This volume contains what I think of as the essential matter in my verse composition over two decades. I tend to compose in books, and didn’t want to disturb the integrity of my favourites: therefore Drumming & Poems, Intensive Care and 3600 Weekends are included in their entirety, as are the shorter sequences A4 Portrait and A4 Landscape. Erik Satie loved children, an early pamphlet, is also included, as I still think it’s quite sweet, and besides it was the first showing of what later evolved into my preferred procedures: cutting and splicing, juxtaposition, language play, composition by rhythm."
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Peter Finch: The Welsh Poems
Paperback. 9"x6", 184pp, £9.95 / $17
ISBN-10 0907562914 || ISBN-13 9780907562917
The Welsh Poems might also be called 'Selected Experimental Poems' and highlights Finch's more unusual excursions into verbal and visual trickery. The book covers work written over a period of two decades and is the first such large-scale selection of his work.
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Tony Frazer (ed): Shearsman 67 & 68
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108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.50 / 13.50
ISBN 9780907562948
The first issue of Shearsman for 2006 featured work by Anne Blonstein, Christopher Middleton, Robert Saxton, Richard Burns, Zoë Skoulding, Robert Sheppard, Devin Johnston, Deborah Meadows, Carolyn van Langenberg and Tilla Brading, among others. Also featured are a number of translations, from Romanian, German, French and Chinese.
Tony Frazer (ed): Shearsman 69 &70
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108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.50 / $13.50
ISBN 9781905700028
The magazine's second issue for 2006. Contents include poetry by Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Richard Burns, Kelvin Corcoran, M T C Cronin, Mark Goodwin, Anthony Hawley, Matthew Jarvis, rob mclennan, Valeria Melchioretto, Mary Michaels, Erin Mouré, John Phillips, Elizabeth Robinson, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Squires, Sasha Steenson and Janet Sutherland; an essay on Roy Fisher by Peter Makin; and translations of the Mexican poet Pura López-Colomé by Jason Stumpf.
Christopher Gutkind: Inside to Outside
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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. Download a sample of work from this book.