Michael Ayres: Kinetic Click on covers for more information.
Published
November 2007. Paperback, 104pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700431
Michael Ayres' first collection with Shearsman Books, following his Odyssey and Salt collections, this book features shorter works than he has been known for in recent years.
Rachel Tzvia Back: On Ruins & Return
Published
June 2007. Paperback, 104pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700370
On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005 is Rachel Tzvia Back's second full-length collection and tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the last intifadah (uprising).
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Ellen Baxt: Analfabeto / An Alphabet
Published
June 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700363
Analfabeto / An Alphabet was written in Recife, Brazil, and Brooklyn, New York. Part dictionary, part travel diary, part historical record, it crosses genre boundaries narrating a story of fragmented shifts in identity — cultural, gendered and sexual. It addresses the complications of translation, not only linguistic translation, but also the multiple ways we translate ourselves when we are away from whatever we might call "home."
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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer: Collected Poems (Rimas)
Translated
by Michael Smith
Published October 2007. Paperback, 184pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10.95 / $20.
ISBN 9781905700653
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was one of Spain's most important poets of the 19th century, and the instigator of a new Spanish version of Romanticism, influenced by German models such as Heine. Born in Seville in 1836, the son of an artist of Flemish origin, he lived only 34 years but in that time created a hugely influential body of verse (his Rimas, or Rhymes) as well as several short fictions (the Leyendas, or Legends).
Hanne Bramness: Salt on the Eye – Selected Poems
Translated
by the author & Frances Presley
Published November 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700417
Hanne Bramness is one of Norway's leading poets, and recently a winner of the prestigious Dobloug Prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy. She is also well-known in her native country for her translations of English-language poets, such as Sylvia Plath and Selima Hill, as well as the Estonian poet Marie Under.
Rosalía de Castro: Selected Poems
Translated
by Michael Smith
Published September 2007. Paperback, 132pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17.
ISBN 9781905700448
The founding mother of modern Galician poetry, Rosalía de Castro (1837-1883) wrote her last collection in Spanish, and this volume covers her work in both languages. A much-needed bilingual volume which introduces a major figure in Iberian poetry to English & American readers. The translations are by the prize-winning Irish poet-translator, Michael Smith, whose own poetry is also published by Shearsman Books and whose co-translations of César Vallejo for Shearsman have been justly celebrated.
M.T.C. Cronin: Notebook of Signs
Published
April 2007. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5"x5.5", £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700110
Another remarkable collection from this prize-winning Australian author. Her last Shearsman collection, the very original <More or Less Than> 1-100 won two of Australia's major literary awards; this new volume is as path-breaking as the last and proves that she is one of the most talented poets of her generation.
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Claire Crowther: Stretch of Closures
Published
February 2007. Paperback, 104pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700189
The array of characters in this book of lyric poems personify twenty-first century language, found on adverts, shopfronts, train tickets. Stretch of Closures writes down an urban landscape in an alphabet made readable by its citizens. If it is the dead metaphors that define everyday lives, Claire Crowther shakes them up to show not just history but signposts to the future.
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Ian Davidson: As if Only
Published 2007. Paperback, 9"x6", 84pp, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 978-1-905700-08-0
The author's second Shearsman collection, following his successful first large collection, At a Stretch (2004). The author says of this book: "These poems were written in Bangor, in north Wales, in Barcelona, in London, on the Baltic coast and in Fez and Marrakech. Despite the distances involved they are the result of a period of introspection and self-possession. Travel doesn't necessarily broaden the mind. In some cases only the long lines would do, and the language had to be chewed over, while in others, when the town was quiet and the blood had stopped pounding in my head, I could clip the tone and measure out the words a few at a time."
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Susanne Dyckman: equilibrium's form
Published
March 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700202
In Susanne Dyckman's first full-length collection, following from her Etherdome Press chapbook published in 2005, poetic tonalities and phrasings are used to disrupt the chronology of past and present. Language plays — and replays — across the page, radiating from interiority to historical concreteness and back again. The reader is impelled through a temporal spiral, "the body as it moves in sequences of rain".
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Tony Frazer (ed.): Poets of Devon & Cornwall, from Barclay to Coleridge
Published
November 2007. Paperback, 128pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700509
Shearsman Classics Series Vol. 1
Alexander Barclay, George Peele, Richard Carew, Anne Dowriche, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, Joseph Hall, Humphrey Gifford, John Ford, Robert Herrick, Sidney Godolphin, William Strode, William Browne, Thomas Spratt, Mary, Lady Chudleigh, Thomas D'Urfey, John Gay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
All of these are poets born in the two westernmost counties of England, or – like Hall and Herrick – poets who were active there. In time we stretch from the very beginning of the 16th century until the early 19th century. We begin with Barclay, a priest at Ottery St. Mary, and we close with Coleridge, the son of a priest at Ottery St. Mary, his birthplace.
Tony Frazer (ed): Shearsman 71 & 72
Published
15 April 2007. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.50 / $13.50
ISBN 9781905700134
The first issue of Shearsman in 2007, containing the usual mix of new poetry from around the world, translations, and short prose.
Tony Frazer (ed): Shearsman 73 & 74
Published
October 2007. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.50
/ $13.50
ISBN 9781905700342
The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2007, containing the usual mix of new poetry from around the world, and a large translation section.