J. H. Prynne - Selected Early Work

Enis Batur - Saga

Aaron Kent - Selected Poems

Daragh Breen - Xo Nus / Sun Ox

Shearsman magazine 149 & 150

Marina Tsvetaeva - Kamchatkan Bear with No Ice-Floe

Kal O'Hanlon - Herron's Dream Diary

Agnieszka Studzinska - Seamless

Anthony Caleshu - Whoever wants wisdom can have it

David Lloyd-Archepelago

Peter Riley - About Poetry

Stefan Hertmans - Goya As Dog. Selected Poems

Jan Carlos Mestre - The Baker's Son. Selected Poems

Art Beck - Personal Things

Alara Adilow - Myths and Traffic Lights

OUR LATEST BOOK RELEASES

Welcome to the Shearsman Books website. Shearsman is a very active small press based in Oxfordshire, England, publishing mainly poetry. We publish around 50 books and two issues of Shearsman magazine every year. The list of authors is completely international, although there are of course more British authors than those from elsewhere. We have a very strong translation list, with a particular emphasis on Hispanic poetry — whether from Latin America or the Peninsula — but we also have fascinating books from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Turkey, and elsewhere. Use the menu bar at the top of the page to get around, and explore the shop (far left in the menu bar), where you can find all of our titles that are in print.

FORTHCOMING BOOKS

David Herd - As If It Was Possible This Morning

John Peck - The Golden Section and 'The Blue Butterfly'

Gerladine Monk - Unforgiving Mirrors

Fiona Larkin - Tenderness of Stone

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Brian Sneeden - Year of the Labyrinth

Peter Robinson - Blind Summits

Adbdul Wahab al-Bayati - A Jeremiad for Hafiz Shirazi & other poems

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho - Hula Hooping

Linda Black - One Mind

Gabriel Levin - Straits

John Levy - To Assemble Absences

martin corless smith - from the black sea

Simon Perril - Just About Music

Gabriela Mistral - Desolation

Vicente Huidobro - Papa, or The Diary of Alicia Mir

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Vicente Huidobro -  The Next One

Geraldine Clarkson - Dream Island Home for Isabelle Huppert

FEATURED AUTHORS

MATT HAW

Matt Haw's Nordic Sublime has been longlisted for the 2026 first-collection prize in the UK's Forward Prizes.







ARTHUR ALLEN

Arthur Allen is an award-winning poet and translator originally from Cheshire. He lives and works as a bookseller in Edinburgh.

Some Things I Do Not Know (2026) is his second collection, and was shortlisted for the 2026 Saltire Award for the Best Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.






ELIZA O'TOOLE

Eliza O’Toole’s poems have appeared in Shearsman magazine, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence,  and  Poetry Review. She published The Dropping of Petals (Muscaliet Press, 2021),  A Cranic of Ordinaries  (Shearsman, 2024) and Buying the Farm  (Shearsman, 2025). She was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 for her pamphlet The Unpinning of Moths.  


A Cranic of Ordinaries, her first Shearsman collection, was shortlisted for the 2025 Laurel Prize, and the following volume, Buying the Farm has now won the poetry prize in the annual East Anglian Book Awards.