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Issue 81/82, 108 pages long, was published on 15 October 2009. It can also be ordered post-free direct from the press. About half of the issue will eventually be made available on this website. The next print issue, 83/84, will appear in mid-April 2010. Issues 75/76 & 77/78 are the latest to be made available online — well, about half of each issue is available; 79/80 will follow shortly, although the downloadable PDFs are being moved to a third-party site, at Issuu. The back-catalogue of the magazine will also be overhauled during the next few months, to bring it into line with the new design.

E-Books

The most recent e-books to be made available on this site are Rodney Nelson's Swede Poems, Ken Edwards' Chaconne and Geoffrey Squires' So. Access them from here. We will be adding further e-books to the site over the next few months.

A series of samplers are now available from this site, showcasing a large number of Shearsman authors. All Shearsman authors will eventually be covered where copyright permits.

Recent Shearsman titles include Bobcat Country by Brandi Homan (top), Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement (above), Pharmacopoeia & Early Selected Work by Elisabeth Bletsoe (below), and Tottel's Miscellany (1557) from the Shearsman Classics series (bottom).

News

Forthcoming readings by Shearsman authors:

See the Readings page for details of readings sponsored by Shearsman Books in London. The listings below are for other events featuring Shearsman authors.

On Monday 8 February, 7:00pm, Carrie Etter reads with Jane Griffiths in the Writing South West series at the University of Plymouth, Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building. Admission £5 / £3 (concessions).

On Monday 8 February, Harriet Tarlo reads with James Harvey and Ken White / David Miller in the Blue Bus series at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).

On Monday 22 February, 8:00-10:00pm, Carrie Etter reads with Alan Jenkins, Carrie Etter, Roddy Lumsden and Molly Peacock in the Coffee House Poetry Series at the The Troubadour, London.

On Wednesday 24th February 2010, 7pm for 7.30pm As You Like It: Lesbian and Gay Poetry: Janet Sutherland reads with John McCullough, hosted by Liz Bahs. John and Janet read their work, complementary historical poems read by Liz; guitar by Debbie Fisher. Admission free, but pre-booking is ESSENTIAL: contact melanie.nicholls@eastsussex.gov.uk or phone: 01273 336253. Venue: Lewes Library, Styles Field, Friars Walk, Lewes, BN7 2LZ.

On Saturday 27 February, 4:30 pm, Carrie Etter reads with Gillian Clarke, Joe Dunthorne, and Kathryn Gray, followed by a question and answer session, at "New Narratives," the Annual Academi Literary Conference, Pontfaen, Wales.

On Saturday 27 February, 7:30 pm, Kenny Knight reads with James Turner at The Drama Studio, 1st Floor, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter. Admission £5 / £3 (concs.)

On Thursday 11 March, Carrie Etter reads with Annie Freud and others in the International Women's Poetry event, Lauderdale House, London. Further details to follow.

On Monday 15th March, Ellen Wehle reads at The Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. More details to follow.

On Tuesday 16 March, Tim Allen and Philip Kuhn read in the Blue Bus series at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).

On Saturday 20 March, Christian Peet reads with Elena Georgiou and TBA in the Yes! Reading Series in Albany, NY. Location etc to be advised.

On Thursday 25 March, 8 pm, Carrie Etter reads in a North American poetry night with Daniel Kane and Todd Swift at E.g. poetry, The Red Roaster Café, Brighton. Also open-mic. Admission £5 /£4 concs.

On Saturday 3 April, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Carrie Etter reads with Molly Peacock at The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City. Admission $8.

On Tuesday 20 April, 6:00pm–8:00pm, Carrie Etter reads and discusses her own work plus her new Shearsman anthology Infinite Difference at an Open Poetry and Poetics meeting, Edge Hill University, Education Block, Ormskirk Campus, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP. Admission free.

On Tuesday 20 April, Martin Anderson reads with Anthony Rudolf and others in the Blue Bus series at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).

On Monday 26 April, a reading in support of the new Shearsman Books anthology Infinite Difference, edited by Carrie Etter, will be held in Cambridge. Venue, readers and timings to be confirmed.

On Thursday 3 June, 7:30pm, Christopher Gutkind, John Welch, David Miller and others will read at the Alfred Celestine Memorial Reading at The Camden Eye, 2 Kentish Town Road, London NW1. Admission free.

On Thursday 24 June, 7:30pm, Steve Spence reads with James Bell at Uncut Poets, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS. Admission £5 / £3 (concs).