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Published August 2025. Paperback, 99pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619951

Jofrid Gunn tells the story of a woman who came from the Faroe Islands in the 16th century to marry into the Clan Gunn, in the north of Scotland. Inspired by the glimpses of lives found in archives, this is a biography in poetry. Each poem can be read individually, but when put together they tell the story of Jofrid’s life – descriptions of the incredible natural places she lived in, the power of the sea, her family life, encounters with the huldufólk or 'hidden people' of legend, and her small part in the clan battles and blood feuds of the time. 

Published August 2025. Paperback, 114pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781837380008

While editors and publishers in the past have always described my short form poems as haiku, I prefer to call the majority of the short form poems of the type in this collection as One-strike Poems, since the term ‘haiku’ relates to a very different cultural and historical mind-set and developmental literary process. And long before my awareness of haiku, the source of my short form poems came originally from my interest in the chants and prayers of indigenous peoples, and then later, graffiti on the walls of the various cities I either lived in or visited. Resulting in my early poems often being of an aphoristic or epigrammatic nature.

              My poems at this time were also sourced in my encounters with an object or event, when a poem might immediately and spontaneously arise out of the experience and be committed, just as it is, to any piece of paper to hand, in that moment. And in the few instances where any change was made afterwards, it was only in the moving of a word or two from one line to another, or on very rare occasions, perhaps the changing of a single word.      (Malcolm Ritchie)

Published August 2025. Chapbook, 34pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95

ISBN 9781837380046

Under Tainaron recasts elements of the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and is rooted in the locations where that mythology originated. On that basis Corcoran’s libretto discloses its poignant relevance to our present world.



Published July 2025. Paperback, 136pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619821

"Eliza O’Toole’s landmark work is much more than a ‘word-hoard’ of and around the farmland of East Anglia, the territory of Constable and Gainsborough. This is an angular book of linguistic inventiveness and substance, at once multilingual and polyphonic employing different registers to accommodate a divergent range and depth of agricultural, botanical, lepidoptera, historical and etymological knowledge. Each poem is in the present with an imposing sense of the past being visible within a mutable natural world. This is a mapping of place that digs deep down into the biochemistry and fragility of the land, wildlife, plants, insects, animals and farming life. In its slant investigation of the layered traces of time worked into the land, it considers whether current farming practices are obsolete by asking obliquely, ‘can the land afford a farm’ or ‘has the farm already been bought’? As a lexical analogue of the land, it delivers a vibrant, messy, stricken world of polychronic becomings. This is an extraordinary achievement." —David Caddy

Published July 2025. Chapbook, 32pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95

ISBN 9781848619975

“The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat…” (Book of Revelation). Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive… Bookish ruts, mystic prisons, spangles, cathedrals, islands, marshes; expungement; release. A small collection of torment and consolation. 

Published July 2025. Chapbook, 32pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95

ISBN 9781848619074

“The age both of present-day poetry and of poetry-to-come is irreducibly and inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together with his Imagems 1 and 2 (2013, 2019),  Richard Berengarten’s third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational.

"Here, Richard Berengarten continues to advocate a numinous poetics, expressed in a language filtered through trees, whose oxygen we breathe. This is a poetics conceived in darkness, growing and spreading inexorably into light. For Berengarten, poetry begins and ends, and begins again, in an inherently shared present, spanning generations, where “all that’s needed is breath.”

—Katie Lehman

Published June 2025. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £10.95 / $18

ISBN 9781848619845

In his 80th year, the poet is obsessed with the notion of location and its effect on his writing. The book’s title, ‘Traveling’, underscores a fascination with the notion of here/there, Pasadena/Bagnone, exterior/interior, all of which upheld by a growing determination to discover the silence inhabiting language. Written between 2022–2025, Traveling celebrates the necessary illusions and forgiveness that characterize an almost 60-year career. Or as one of Vangelisti’s more recent poems reminds us:

The rest is anything but silence.

Now at this age still determined

to let song flourish and go where it may.

Translated from Spanish by Roberta Quance. Bilingual edition.
Published June 2025. Paperback, 150pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619203

"Can the poet speak for his fellow citizens while recognising the crisis of the self within himself? And the feeling of being disempowered? In modern times, who has ever asked the poet to set himself up as a spokesperson? Piera tackles this problem by demonstrating a prodigious ability to imagine himself as other in order to talk about himself. The poet, characteristically, lives by and through his characters, be they Cassandra (the unauthorised prophetess) mermaids (more threatened than threatening) or the outcast whom he ironically labels ‘weeds’. The worst fate is to have no voice or to have one that is despised, like Cassandra or the ‘weeds’, unable to do much more than scream. Poetry emerges from such contradictions." —From the prologue by Roberta Ann Quance

Edited by Tony Frazer. Translated from Spanish & French 

by Michael Smith & Luis Ingelmo, Eliot Weinberger and Tony Frazer.

Published June 2025. Paperback, 216pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $23

ISBN 9781848619807 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]

This selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro's work, from 1914 until 1948, when his final, posthumous volume was published. moving from the early symbolist work, though the high avant-garde phase towards the end of the First World War, then through the phase of Altazor and Temblor de cielo (Skyquake) , the highpoint of his career (both published 1931), and on into the quieter late poetry which synthesises the previous work and settles down into a post-vanguard style. Also includes manifestos and interviews. The revised 2nd edition replaces some poems now shown to better effect elsewhere in this series of books devoted to Huidobro, and features a number of revisions to others.

Published May 2025. Paperback, 86pp, 8 x 8ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619883

Black Fens Viral began in summer 2020 when I was recovering from Covid. Lockdown was lifting and I was able to travel to Norfolk on the slow train which goes through the Black Fens of East Anglia. This flat, almost hedgeless and treeless, agricultural landscape of black peat was once marshland, before the drainage of the fens. The first sluice was created by the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden in 1642 to limit the tidal flow up the Great Ouse, but he did not realise that the peat would shrink after it dried out and be blown away by the wind. We now know that it also adds to global warming through leaking carbon dioxide and means the risk of flooding is more acute than ever.

        I often write about landscapes I love, such as Exmoor or the north Norfolk coast, protected by national parks and nature reserves, but I needed to write about this damaged landscape, where plants are exploited and biodiversity ignored. It corresponded to the damage caused by the pandemic, a result of human incursions into wild places. Writing about the Black Fens also brought back memories of my childhood in Lincolnshire. Depopulated by mechanised agriculture, it was a lonely landscape, as well as an ecological disaster. (Frances Presley)

Translated from Spanish by Tony Frazer

Published May 2025. Paperback, 196pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $24

ISBN 9781848618183

This assemblage of uncollected Huidobro texts includes some stray manuscripts — few of these actually survive and have not been collected somewhere in the previous books in this series — and his occasional poems: works in honour of the Soviet Union, of Republican Spain, of fallen France, of his paramour (and later common-law wife) Ximena, plus a vitriolic attack on some Italian (i.e. fascist) aviators working with the Chilean Air Force. Two early works are added, from the period that might be regarded as juvenilia, as they show an early interest in shaped poems — not quite calligrammes, but with some affinity. We have also located one poem which has never been published in book form before, either in Spanish or in English.

Published May 2025. Paperback, 86pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £10.95 / $18

ISBN 9781848619593

". . . there is that second strand, the fitful, halting strand of Irish modernism, a bare technique, picked up by Beckett and carried through by writers such as . . . neo-Classicist poet, Fergal Gaynor. James Joyce would have recognised these contemporary writers instantly, knowing that their modernist efforts to escape from the story-teller material of Ireland should lead to new forms . . ."  (Thomas McCarthy, Irish Examiner)

Translated from Russian by Christopher Whyte
Published May 2025. Paperback, 122pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £12.95 / $20

ISBN 9781848619760

The years between the twin revolutions of 1917 and Tsvetaeva’s departure at the end of April 1922, together with her daughter Alya, for Berlin and then Prague were the most productive of her entire career. In addition to a host of shorter, lyrical items, she wrote the long poems On a Red Steed and Tsar-Maiden, the latter a reworking and reimagining of folklore material in characteristically disconcerting and idiosyncratic style. Thanks to a chance meeting on the train which brought her back from Crimea to Moscow in November 1917, Tsvetaeva became acquainted with Pavel Antokolsky and, through him, with the members of the drama studio run by Yevgeny Vakhtangov, inspiring her to write no fewer than five dramas in verse in the space of two years. There, too, she met the actor Yury Zavadsky, and the diminutive actress with an English surname, Sonechka Holliday, to both of whom she dedicated extended cycles not fully assembled till after her death, as was the cycle of twenty-seven poems addressed to the painter Nikolay Nikolayevich Vysheslavtsvev (1890–1952), headed only by his initials. 

The contrast between this outpouring of verse – an estimated 735 poems just for the period covered by this volume – and the background circumstances of inconceivable hardship, could hardly be more striking. 

WINNER, English PEN Award
Translated from German by various hands. Introduced by Nicola Thomas.

Published April 2025. Paperback, 204pp, 9 x 6ins, £16.95 / $25

ISBN 9781848619074

This is the first major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for more than 40 years. Authors featured are: Yevgeniy Breyger, Sonja vom Brocke, Alexandru Bulucz, Carolin Callies, Ann Cotten, Ulrike Draesner, Oswald Egger, Elke Erb, Daniel Falb, Christian Filips, Dinçer Güçyeter, Martina Hefter, Jayne-Ann Igel, Hendrik Jackson, Thomas Kling, Dagmara Kraus, Birgit Kreipe, Nadja Küchenmeister, Jan Kuhlbrodt, Georg Leß, Friederike Mayröcker, Christoph Meckel, Steffen Popp, Kerstin Preiwuß, Monika Rinck, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Sabine Scho, Daniela Seel, Verena Stauffer, Ulf Stolterfoht, Sebastian Unger, Anja Utler, Peter Waterhouse, and Uljana Wolf.

Translators are: Shane Anderson, Kurt Beals, Paul-Henri Campbell, Aimee Chor, Brian Currid, Andrew Duncan, Joshua Daniel Edwin, Christopher Fenwick, Gerald Fiebig, Iain Galbraith, Robert Gillett, Nicholas Grindell, Catherine Hales, Christian Hawkey, Jayashree Hari Joshi, Alexander Kappe, Karen Leeder, Grace Nissan, Caroline Wilcox Reul, Bradley Schmidt, Jake Schneider, Joel Scott, Sophie Seita, Donna Stonecipher, Nicola Thomas, Amy Visram and Jana Maria Weiß.

Shearsman Library Vol. 22.
Published April 2025. Paperback, 194pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $23

ISBN 9781848619296

Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 2010, but left out work which had been collected in special limited editions — and which were outside the main trajectory of his work — as well as work which had been published in magazines but which had then been dropped from his main published collections. This Uncollected volume redresses the balance, and, for good measure, includes an interview with the Mexican poet, Tedi López Mills, which has only previously been published in Spanish. The volume in which that interview appeared, like the rest of the contents of this book, is no longer in print elsewhere.