Pura López-Colomé: Aurora Click on covers for more information.
Translated
from Spanish by Jason Stumpf
Published October 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.
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Toby Olson: Darklight
Published
September 2007. Paperback, 120pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700233
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. Download a sample of work from this book.
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Chus Pato: Charenton
Translated
by Erín Moure
Published October 2007. Paperback, 116pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95
/ $17
ISBN 9781905700332
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
Published
September 2007. Paperback, ca. 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700264
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
Translated
from Portuguese by Jonathan Griffin
Published September 2007. Paperback, 108pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700271
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
Translated
from Portuguese by Chris Daniels
Published September 2007. Paperback, 200pp, 8.5x5.5ins £11.95 / $20.
ISBN 9781905700240
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
Published
January 2007. Paperback, 124pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700158
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. Download a sample of work from this book.
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Peter Riley: The Day's Final Balance – Uncollected Writings 1965-2006
Published
January 2007. Paperback, 212pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.95 / $21.
ISBN 9781905700097
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
Published
November 2007. Paperback,
160pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10.95 / $18.50
ISBN 9781905700523
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
Published
March 2007. Paperback, 80pp, 8x5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781605700172
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
Published
September 2007. Paperback, ca. 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 978-1-905700-35-6
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
Published
June 2007. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700608
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
Published
April 2007. Paperback, 88pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700219
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. Download a sample of work from this book.
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Elizabeth Treadwell: Birds and Fancies
Published
March 2007. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15.
ISBN 9781905700165
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
Translated & edited
by Michael Smith & Valentino Gianuzzi
Published March 2007. Paperback, 268pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.95 / $21.
ISBN 9781905700103
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. Download a sample of work from this book.
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