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Paperback.
Paperback 8.5x5.5ins, 92pp. £8.95
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ISBN 9780907562849
Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. He is the author of the chapbooks Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Vocative (Phylum Press), and his poems have appeared in various publications including Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, 26, and Volt. He currently lives in Nebraska with his wife and daughter and is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Concerto Form is his first full-length collection. Download a sample of work from this book.
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David Jaffin: Dream Flow
Paperback. 215mm x 135mm paperback, 311pp, £10 / $17.
ISBN 9781905700141
David Jaffin – an American poet and pastor in the Lutheran (Evangelical) church in Germany – is one of the most productive poets of our time. Dream Flow is his largest single collection to date and features new short lyrics from the year 2005. A master of concision, Jaffin's work is in the American modern tradition but stands outside it to a certain degree, conducting its explorations of language in a remarkably pure, stripped-down style.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany. Order from the Shearsman online store.
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 of work from this book.
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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 of work from this book.
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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 of work from this book.
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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 of work from this book.
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George Messo: Entrances
Published
May 2006. Paperback, 83pp, 8x5ins. £8.95
/ $15.
ISBN 0907562900
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." Download a sample of work from this book.
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Frances Presley: Myne: New & Selected Poems & Prose 1976-2005
Published
2006. Paperback, 200pp, 9x6ins, £11.95
/ $20.
ISBN 9780907562535
Myne is a survey of Frances Presley's career to date, as well as a new collection of her poems. It begins with two recent cycles: the title sequence inspired by the Somerset landscape, and 'Stone Settings', which retraces the enigmatic patterns of prehistoric stones on Exmoor. Also here are the entire Somerset Letters, and Linocut, both originally published by Oasis Books, plus substantial selections from the author’s first two books, The Sex of Art and Hula Hoop. Download a sample of work from this book.
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