John Hall: Couldn't You? Click on covers for more information.
Published
November 2007. Paperback,
92pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700516
John Hall's first collection with Shearsman Books, and his first since the comprehensive Selected Poems published by Etruscan in 2002.
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Michael Haslam: Mid Life
Published
June 2007. Paperback, 208pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £11.95 / $20
ISBN 9781905700394
Mid Life is subtitled 'Poetry 1980-2000', and is a revised and reconsidered Collected Poems covering the period 1980-1994 in terms of composition, and several further years of revision. The contents of this volume, in earlier versions, originally appeared as A Whole Bauble from Carcanet Press in 1995. Now much revised, this volume sums up the author's compositional "mid-life". Download a sample of work from this book.
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Robert Herrick: Selected Poems
Shearsman Classics Series No. 2. 
Edited
by Tony Frazer.
Published November 2007. Paperback, 120pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700493
Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was perhaps the greatest poet to have worked in Devon. Born in London, the son of a goldsmith, he studied at Cambridge and later fell in with the London poets who had gathered around the magnetic figure of Ben Jonson. In order to make a living—since he had not pursued the family trade—he entered the Church and in 1627 was appointed chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham, whom he accompanied on an unsuccessful military expedition in 1627. In 1629 he was appointed to the living of Dean Prior, a village on the edge of Dartmoor, about half-way between Exeter and Plymouth. He was to remain there for the rest of his life, with the exception of the Cromwellian interregnum from 1647–1660, during which he was expelled for his royalist sympathies and, no doubt, also doctrinal disagreements. Download a sample of work from this book.
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Paul Holman: The Memory of the Drift – Books I-IV
Published
October 2007. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700295
This volume combines a revised text of the first part of The Memory of the Drift (written 1993-1999, and originally published in 2001) with the three interlocking, previously uncollected, books in which its argument is extended: In the Common Era, Dog Mercury and Vicinal.
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Jeremy Hooker: Upstate – A North American Journal
Published
April 2007. Paperback, 148pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700226
An American journal – recorded while on an academic exchange in the North-East of the USA – by a leading English poet, whose collected poems, The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005 appeared from Enitharmon in 2006. Something of a companion volume to the same author's Welsh Journal (2001), which is still available from Seren.
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Peter Hughes: Nistanimera
Published
October 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700288
Nistanimera is a site of potent mergers: day and night, Greece and Italy, head and heart, liver and lights, dream and reality, within and without. Ideally it should be imagined as a cantata sung by a lost transvestite Roman Catholic/Marxist nun banged up in a detention centre off the A14. The film rights are currently under negotiation.
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David Jaffin: Sunstreams
Published
May 2007. Paperback, 324pp, A5 format, £12 / $20
ISBN-13 9781905700400
Sunstreams is David Jaffin's annual volume of poetry for 2007, another collection of micro-lyrics in his trademark short-lined style, with nary a word a spare.
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Andrew Jordan: Ha-ha
Published
February 2007. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700127
These poems explore the remnants of a system of ancient narrative trackways that criss-cross the landscapes of south and south west England. These flows of energy underpin the hermetics of enclosure. They are explored here for the first time. This book might be a strategy—a self help manual for the ontologically dispossessed—or just an encouragement to trespass in the newly enclosed purlieu of the self. Tell it how you want, emblematic landscapes—and how we perceive them—can mirror identity and relationship, creating a cultural space within which both can become tenable.
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David Kennedy (editor): Necessary Steps
Published
October 2007. Paperback, 192pp, 9x6ins £12.95 / $23
ISBN 9781905700639
A collection of essays, several of which previously appeared in David Kennnedy’s magazine The Paper, revolving around poetry, walking, elegy and the spiritual. Contributors are Andrea Brady, Ian Davidson & Zoë Skoulding, John Hall, Sarah Law, Jennifer Moxley, Stuart Mugridge, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Malcolm Phillips, Peter Riley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Josh Robinson, Jane Routh, Penelope Shuttle, Lawrence Upton and Stephen Vincent.
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Alfred Kolleritsch: Selected Poems
Translated
from German by Iain Galbraith
Published 24 April 2007. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700301
The first English-language survey of Austrian poet Alfred Kolleritsch's work. Kolleritsch is the doyen of the Graz literary scene, and editor of the indispensable magazine manuskripte, for decades one of the major German-language literary/poetic journals.
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Nancy Kuhl: The Wife of the Left Hand
Published
February 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700066
In her first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, the poet Nancy Kuhl explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught between the quotidian and the uncanny. In language that is by turns sensual and spare, elegant and oneiric, the images and music of this collection reveal and recast the daily ambiguities of living with others, "the fragile arrangement all blue / at the seams," and the uncertain line between the hidden and the apparent, like a "house / with its unswerving spine exposed." Download a sample of work from this book.
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Gerry Loose: Printed on Water — New & Selected Poems
Published
April 2007. Paperback, 144pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700073
A timely retrospective of a Glasgow poet, whose work should be better known outside Scotland. A mixture of ecology, politics, and meditation make these poems very much of our time. The book selects from 30 years of work.
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Pura López-Colomé: Aurora
Translated
from Spanish by Jason Stumpf
Published 2007. Paperback, 112pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781905700387
Aurora was first published in Mexico City in 1994 by Ediciones Equilibrista, and was the author's third full-length collection. Her entire output has since been collected in Mexico in a single volume Música inaudita. Download a sample PDF from this book here.
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Tony Lopez & Anthony Caleshu (editors): Poetry and Public Language
Published
October 2007. Paperback, 320pp, 9x6ins £15.95 / $26
ISBN 9781905700646
A collection of essays and papers delivered at the University of Plymouth’s eponymous conference in April 2007. Contributors include Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, Allen Fisher, Richard Kerridge, Peter Middleton, Robert Hampson, William Rowe, Andrea Brady, Robert Sheppard, Ian Davidson, Carrie Etter, Scott Thurston, Ian Davidson, Philip Terry and several others.
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Deborah Meadows: involutia
Published
February 2007. Paperback, 84pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN-13 9781905700196; ISBN-10 1905700199
Deborah Meadows' fourth collection is a rigorous and spellbinding series of poems: innovative, experimental, and featuring such unexpected collisions as Luce Irigaray & Gilles Deleuze encountering zen philosophy.
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