2026 Titles — in date order


Gerardo Diego   Handbook of Foams

Published January 2026. Paperback, 136pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619869



Manual de espumas was published in 1924 and was one of the most important eruptions in the early phase of the 20th-century Spanish avant-garde. Heavily influenced by Vicente Huidobro and his theories of Creationism, the book is effectively the first Creationist volume by someone other than Huidobro himself, while also being the volume that carried the banner for Ultraism, Spain's first movement of the vanguardia.




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Michelle Penn   Retablo for a Door

Published January 2026. Paperback, 98pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781837380060




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Bridget Khursheed - Exact Colour of Snow

Yevgeny Breyger   Fugitive Moons

Translated from German by Alexander Kappe
Published January 2026. Paperback, 172pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $23

ISBN 9781837380077




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Martin Anderson - Before Dark. Collected Poems

M. Stasiak   Obsidian's Cousin

Published xxxx 2026. Paperback, 82pp, 9 x 6ins, £10.95 / $18

ISBN 978xxxxxxxx





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Ian Seed   Forgetfulness

Published xxxx 2026. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £10.95 / $18.

ISBN 978xxxxxxxxx




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Liam Guilar   How Culhwch Won Olwen — a verse translation of the oldest Arthurian story

Published xxxxx 2026. Paperback, 120pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619548



Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen), is a prose tale, written in medieval Welsh, which survives in two manuscripts from the 14th century. The story, in its current version, probably dates from the 11th, though some parts may be much older. It is one of the eleven stories collected in The Mabinogion. When Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones translated the collection, they placed Culhwch and Olwen in a group they called ‘The Four Independent Native tales’. The ‘oldest surviving Arthurian tale’, it is unlike any of the other stories in the collection and I think it is one of the great literary performances. Whoever put the surviving version together was a genius; a wayward or accidental genius, but a genius.


By modern literary standards it is chaotic and unsure of its genre. It is episodic, inconsistent and contradicts itself. There are conversations which read as though parts have been lost or misunderstood, and episodes in which the sequence of events

seems to be scrambled. But if one accepts the story is the way it is because its audience liked it that way, then it is a reminder that ‘modern literary standards’ are not the only way of approaching a text, and any attempt to cling to them will ruin your enjoyment of what follows. It has the logic of dreams and the morality of nightmare.

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Keri Finlayson   Textile with Birds and Smoke

Published xxxxxx 2026. Paperback, 76pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £10.95 / $18

ISBN 9781xxxxxxxx



Deserted by her mother as a baby, Emily lives with her father in Mexico City, working in the local orphanage. When a mysterious cousin, Santi, appears on the doorstep, he brings with him family secrets, and soon Emily finds desire and temptation have overturned her straightforward life forever. The Poison That Fascinates is an alluring fable forged in astonishing, sensuous prose. Jennifer Clement conjures a world heavy with the weight of Mexican superstition, mythology and faith, where saintliness and mortal sin sit side by side. The author's second novel, out of print for a little while now, offers another glimpse of Jennifer Clement's continuing growth as a literary novelist.

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Martyn Crucefix   How to Wake Up As Someone Else

Published xxxxxx 2026. Paperback, 108pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781837380053





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Tony Frazer (ed.)   Shearsman 147 / 148

Published April 2025. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £9.95 / $17

ISBN 9781xxxxxxx



The first double issue of
Shearsman magazine for 2026.


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Kelvin Corcoran (ed.)   Shearsman 149 / 150

Published October 2025. Paperback, 100pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £9.95 / $17

ISBN 9781xxxxxxx



The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2026; contents will be announced in July 2025.



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John Montague (translator)  French Leaves — A Personal Anthology

Introduced by Elizabeth Wassell Montague

Published in 2025; date tbc. Paperback, 210pp, 9 x 6 ins, £14.95 / $24

ISBN 9781837380107



The late John Montague was one of Ireland's finest 20th-century poets. He spent a lot of time in France, and made friends with a number of French poets. This volume covers his engagement with French poetry of his own time, albeit with a few glances back in history, with selections running from Verlaine and Valéry up to Michel Deguy (1930–2022) and Claude Esteban (1935–2006). While not a definitive anthology of French poetry, the book gives a vivid impression of a fine poet engaging with the work of his peers: personal, but revealing, and foregrounding the work of some under-recognised French poets of the post-war era.


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Vicente Huidobro   Altazor

Translated from Spanish by Tony Frazer & Terence Dooley.

Published 2026, date tbc. Paperback, 208pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $24

ISBN 9781848618640



Altazor is increasingly seen as one of the key works of the 20th-century Hispanic avant-garde in poetry. Apparently put together over several years, it looks back in part to the ground-breaking volume Ecuatorial (1918), imbibes a number of futurist tropes from that same era, takes in the surrealist wave that took hold in the mid-1920s, and ends with shattered pieces of language that appear to admit of the impossibility of finishing the work coherently, or even of coherent speech, while also implying a more pessimistic view of the world than that which Huidobro would have espoused as a younger man during the heyday of Cubist Paris. In amongst all this, the poem’s eponymous protagonist flies high and low, taking in the heavens and the depths of hell, following both Dedalus and Orpheus. While the book evidently left his contemporaries puzzled, and had minimal initial impact, Altazor today looks uncannily prophetic, even post-modern, in its emphasis on verbal games and trickery, on defamiliarisation, and being comfortable with a lack of any conclusion. Huidobro even boasted of this lack in a letter to Luis Buñuel, referencing Lautréamont and Rimbaud as other “failures” whose company he was glad to keep.


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Vicente Huidobro  Painted Poems

Poem texts translated from French by Tony Frazer. With an essay by Rosa Sarabia and a dozen full-colour images.
Published in 2026. Date tbc. Paperback, ca. 96pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848618206



In 1922, in Paris, Vicente Huidobro exhibited a dozen painted poems: poster-sized, these exotic creations were an attempt by the poet — who was close to a number of the leading painters of the time — to take the Cubist leanings in his verse to their logical extreme. Here Apollinairean calligrammes — and Apollinaire was one of Huidobro's first friends in Paris — move from being pictorial poems to being pictures in their own right. The volume includes all the recreated versions made for the 2001 Salle XIV exhibition at Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum, along with with as many reproductions of the originals, and their drafts, that we have been able to assemble.


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