Deborah Meadows: involutia

Example content imagePublished 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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Toby Olson: Darklight

Example content imagePublished September 2007. Paperback, 120pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700233 Download a sample of work from this book.

Author of ten novels (among others The Life of Jesus, Seaview and Utah) and over 20 collections of poetry (including We Are the Fire — Selected Poems, and Human Nature, both from New Directions), Toby Olson demonstrates in his new collection that the passage of time has only sharpened his narrative voice. Toby Olson is a story-teller, puckish and avuncular by turns, and this new collection will delight his many admirers. Toby Olson divides his time between Philadelphia and Cape Cod.

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Chus Pato: Charenton

Example content imageTranslated by Erín Moure

Published October 2007. Paperback, 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17
ISBN 9781905700332 Download a sample of work from this book.

Chus Pato is the leading contemporary poet in Galicia. All of her work is written in the Galician language (Galego), but contrary perhaps to one's expectations of work written in what is a minority language, and one also long-repressed, her work is avant-garde, postmodern, and reflects the author's Marxist beliefs as well as her belief in the necessity of independence for Galicia. This is a radical poetry that, despite its remote origins, can speak powerfully across borders and languages.

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Fernando Pessoa: Selected English Poems

Example content imagePublished September 2007. Paperback, ca. 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700264 Download a sample of work from this book.

Pessoa wrote a large number of poems in English, some of them in the guise of early heteronyms (such as Alexander Search and C R Anon) which prove to be fascinating precursors of the later, modernist work in Portuguese. While not the equal of the masterly Caeiro, Campos, Reis or Pessoa-himself, these poems deserve to be better known and at least available in the English-speaking world.

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Fernando Pessoa: Message

Example content imageTranslated from Portuguese by Jonathan Griffin

Published September 2007. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700271 Download a sample of work from this book.

Pessoa published only one collection of his Portuguese poetry during his lifetime, and then only in 1934, a year before his death: Mensagem (Message). This exquisite collection of apparently patriotic poems hides a deeply symbolic style, where famous figures from Portuguese history and national myth become symbols of the poet's life and quest. A second edition of the collection first published by Menard Press & King's College London in 1992.

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Fernando Pessoa: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

Example content imageTranslated from Portuguese by Chris Daniels

Published September 2007. Paperback, 200pp, 8.5x5.5ins £11.95 / $20.
ISBN 9781905700240 Download a sample of work from this book.

Translated by Chris Daniels, one of the USA's leading translators of Lusophone poetry. The only integral collection of the Caeiro heteronym in English, this is accompanied by the introductory writings of Ricardo Reis and a memoir by Álvaro de Campos, two of the other major poetic heteronyms, as well as a poem by C. Pacheco, believed to be another one-off heteronym of Pessoa's. For further Pessoa titles, published in 2008, see details here.

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Peter Riley: The Llyn Writings

Example content imagePublished January 2007. Paperback, 124pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
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Since the 1970s, Peter Riley and his wife have been making regular trips to the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales, and he has been writing a series of poems and meditations about the place – a spectacular area of natural beauty. To date, many of these poems, and poem-sequences, have appeared in small-press and bibliophile editions, and in artists' books. Three of the sequences were also collected in the author's Selected Poems, Passing Measures, published by Carcanet in 2000. Now, for the first time, all of Peter Riley's Llyn writings – both poems and prose-poems – are collected together under one set of covers.

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Peter Riley: The Day's Final Balance – Uncollected Writings 1965-2006

Example content imagePublished January 2007. Paperback, 212pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.95 / $21.
ISBN 9781905700097 Download a sample of work from this book.

The subtitle says it all: here are numerous stray publications and lost poems, and prose-poems from throughout the author's career. Amongst many other works, the collection includes the previously unpublished sixth part of the long poem 'Alstonefield'.

 

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John Seed: That Barrikins – Pictures from Mayhew II

Example content imagePublished November 2007. Paperback, 160pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781905700523 Download a sample of work from this book.

The second volume of John Seed's exploration of Mayhew, recasting the voices from the original text in a Reznikoffian manner, freeing them from the confines of the narrative and thus letting usa hear the voices in a new context.

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Spencer Selby: Twist of Address

Example content imagePublished March 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8x5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781605700172 Download a sample of work from this book.

Poet, artist and historian of film noir, Selby was born and raised in the Midwest of the USA but lives in Oakland, California. This volume presents his first collection of verse in some years.

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Colin Simms: Gyrfalcon Poems

Example content imagePublished September 2007. Paperback, ca. 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 978-1-905700-35-6 Download a sample of work from this book.

This is Colin Simms' third Shearsman collection. A noted naturalist and expert on birds of prey, he collects here his poems on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied in Britain, North America, Iceland and Siberia. The book also contains some of his field drawings of the birds. Sampler to come.

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Tupa Snyder: No Man's Land

Example content imagePublished June 2007. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
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No Man's Land is Tupa Snyder's first collection. Born in Calcutta, she has studied at universities in India, the United States and England. This book includes a large proportion of work presented to the University of Exeter for the award of a Ph.D., and demonstrates the arrival of a confident new voice that straddles cultural divides. Sampler to come.

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Isobel Thrilling: The Language Creatures

Example content imagePublished April 2007. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700219 Download a sample of work from this book.

A fourth collection, and the first in some years, for Isobel Thrilling, whose delicate lyrics deserve a wider audience. Isobel Thrilling was born in Suffolk, and brought up in a mining village in the north-east of England; she read English at Hull University and spent many years as Head of Service for teaching English as a Second Language in a London borough. She first started writing after eye-operations that saved her sight.

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Elizabeth Treadwell: Birds and Fancies

Example content imagePublished March 2007. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700165 Download a sample of work from this book.

Rhyme and ancestry – literary and otherwise – become contemporary in Elizabeth Treadwell's newest collection, Birds & Fancies, which traces a deepening initiation into the mysteries and continuities of history and biology brought on by motherhood. "Oh daughter thou/shalt grounde & playe."

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César Vallejo: The Black Heralds & Other Early Poems

Example content imageTranslated & edited by Michael Smith & Valentino Gianuzzi

Published March 2007. Paperback, 268pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.95 / $21.
ISBN 9781905700103 Download a sample of work from this book.

The completion of the Shearsman Vallejo project. Translated & edited by Valentino Gianuzzi and Michael Smith. Before writing his breakthrough poem-sequence Trilce, César Vallejo published The Black Heralds, his first book of poems, in 1919. Although heavily indebted to the aesthetics of modernismo, Vallejo's early volume finds a way to escape the merely decorative, and includes poems of indubitable originality, harbingers of his later masterpieces. The most thorough volume of Vallejo's early work yet to be made available in English.

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