Shearsman magazine back issues
for the best in contemporary poetry
NB. Sampler PDFs for these issues start with issue 141 / 142. We try to make samplers available about a year after publication.
Shearsman 143 & 144 (April 2025)
Poetry by Martin Anderson, Claire Crowther, Keri Finlayson, Jane Frank, Amlanjyoti Goswami, David Hadbawnik, Matt Haw, Norman Jope, Alicia Byrne Keane, Linda Kemp, L. Kiew, Fiona Larkin, John Levy, Nicky Melville, John Newson, Anita Ngai, Mark Nowak, Eliza O'Toole, Adam Panichi, John Phillips, Ian Pople, Anna Reckin, Wendy Saloman, Nathan Shepherdson and Janet Sutherland, plus translations of Jürgen Becker (by Martyn Crucefix), Rilke (by John Greening), Evelyn Schlag (by Karen Leeder) and Volha Hapeyeva (by Annie Rutherford)
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Shearsman 141 & 142 (October 2024)
Poetry by Josephine Balmer, Daragh Breen, Steve Brock, Carmen Bugan, Anna D’Alton, Amy Evans Bauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, Lucy Hamilton, Ellen Harrold, Huw Gwynn Jones, Jazmine Linklater, Sujatha Menon, John Muckle, Tom Phillips, Paula Sankelo, Ian Seed, Aidan Semmens, Simon Smith and Rimas Uzgiris; plus translations of Marco Catalão by Chris Miller, Giedrė Kazlauskaitė by Rimas Uzgiris, Concha Méndez by Harriet Truscott, Ennio Moltedo by Marguerite Feitlowitz and Miguel Otero Silva by Chris Holdaway.
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Shearsman 139 & 140 (April 2024)
Poetry by Rizwan Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Jack Barron, Leia K. Bradley, Tom Cowin, Claire Crowther, Katy Evans-Bush, Mark Fiddes, Giles Goodland, Sylee Gore, Ellen Harrold, Jill Jones, Norman Jope, Karin Lessing, Bernadette McCarthy, Katherine Meehan, David Miller, Sophia Nugent-Siegal, Joseph Nutman, Anne Pelletier-Topping, Janet Sutherland, Helen Tookey, Jay-Philippe Vibert, Margaret Ann Wadleigh, Mark Ward & Alex Wong.
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Shearsman 137 & 138 (October 2023)
Poetry by Serena Alagappan, Wendy Allen, Mark Byers, Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell, Peter Dukes, David Dumouriez, Marie-Louise Eyres, Dominic Fisher, Mark Goodwin, Amlanjyoti Goswami, John Greening, Finn Haunch, Neal Hoskins, Maria Jastrzębska, Fiona Larkin, Peter Larkin, Rupert M Loydell, Valeria Melchioretto, Eliza O’Toole, John Phillips, Amber Rollinson, D’or Seifer, Natalie Shaw, Robert Sheppard and Judi Sutherland; plus translations of Kjell Espmark (by Robin Fulton Macpherson), Attila József (by Ágnes Lehóczky & Adam Piette), Lutz Seiler (by Stefan Tobler), and Roelof Ten Napel (by Judith Wilkinson).
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Shearsman 135 & 136 (April 2023)
Poetry by Martin Anderson, Nóra Blascsók, Melissa Buckheit, Stuart Cooke, Carrie Etter, Amy Evans Bauer, Alec Finlay, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Daniel Hinds, Emily Tristan Jones, Norman Jope, Kenny Knight, Mary Leader, Rob Mackenzie, James McLaughlin, Eliza O'Toole, Michelle Penn, Sophia Nugent-Siegal, Peter Robinson, Jaime Robles, Maurice Scully, Aidan Semmens, Nathan Shepherdson, Maria Stasiak, Cole Swensen, G.C. Waldrep, Carl Walsh and Petra White, plus translations of Anna Akhmatova (by Stephen Capus) and of Mercè Rodoreda (by Rebecca Simpson).
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Shearsman 133 & 134 (October 2022)
Poetry by Gordon Alexander, Lisa Blackwell, Cecile Bol, Ken Bolton, Jessica Bundschuh, Geraldine Clarkson, Angelina D’Roza, Lucy Hamilton, Denis Harnedy, Finn Haunch, Jill Jones, L. Kiew, Edward Lee, Hannah Linden, Tim MacGabhann, Aonghas Macneacail, David Miller, Eliza O’Toole, Rochelle Owens, Peter Riley, Lucy Maxwell Scott, Lucy Sheerman, Penelope Shuttle, Andrew Taylor and Tamar Yoseloff, plus translations of Chen Xianfa (by Martyn Crucefix & Nancy Feng Liang), Dorien De Wit (by Judith Wilkinson) and Ulrike Almut Sandig (by Karen Leeder).
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Shearsman 131 & 132 (April 2022)
Poetry by Tim Allen, Kate Ashton, Isobel Armstrong, Carmen Bugan, Jonathan Catherall, Wendy Clayton, Tom Cowin, Claire Crowther, Julian Dobson, Katy Evans-Bush, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Penny Hope, Eluned Jones, Fiona Larkin, Mary Leader, DS Maolalai, James McGonigal, James McLaughlin, Deborah Moffatt, Mark Russell, Tim Scott, Robert Sheppard, Rufus Talks, Rimas Uzgiris, Ann Vickery, Margaret Ann Wadleigh, Polly Walshe, Fiona Wilson, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese; and translations of Max Jacob (by Ian Seed), Denis Rigal (by David Banks) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (by Chris Daniels).
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Shearsman 129 & 130 (October 2021)
Poetry by Tomi Adegbayibi, Ken Bolton and Peter Bakowski, Daragh Breen, Belinda Cooke, Stuart Cooke, Gareth Culshaw, Carrie Etter, Gerrie Fellows, Maria Jastrzebska, Kenny Knight, Rosanna Licari, Fran Lock, Julie Maclean, Fokinna McDonnell, John Muckle, Simon Perchik, Kerry Pries, Peter Robinson, Paul Rossiter, Simon Smith, Maria Stadnicka, Janet Sutherland, Lydia Unsworth, and Cliff Yates, plus translations of Cecilie Løveid (by Agnes Scott Langeland), Gérard de Nerval (by Ian Brinton & Michael Grant) and Ivan Štrpka (by James Sutherland Smith).
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Shearsman 127 & 128 (April 2021)
Shearsman 125 & 126 (October 2020)
Shearsman 123 & 124 (April 2020)
Shearsman 121 & 122 (October 2019)
Shearsman 119 & 120 (April 2019)

Shearsman 117 & 118 (October 2018)

Shearsman 115 & 116 (April 2018)

Shearsman 113 & 114 (October 2017)

Shearsman 111 & 112 (April 2017)

Shearsman 109 & 110 (October 2016)

Shearsman 107 & 108 (April 2016)

Shearsman 105 & 106 (October 2015)

Shearsman 103 & 104 (April 2015)

Shearsman 101 & 102 (October 2014)

Shearsman 99 & 100 (April 2014)

Shearsman 97 & 98 (October 2013)

Shearsman 95 & 96 (April 2013)

Shearsman 93 & 94 (October 2012)

Shearsman 91 & 92 (April 2012)

Shearsman 89 & 90 (October 2011)

Shearsman 87 & 88 (April 2011)

Shearsman 85 & 86 (October 2010)

Shearsman 83 & 84 (April 2010)

Shearsman 81 & 82 (October 2009)

Shearsman 79 & 80 (April 2009)

Shearsman 77 & 78 (October 2008)

Shearsman 75 & 76 (April 2008)

Shearsman 73 & 74 (October 2007)

Shearsman 71 & 72 (April 2007)

Shearsman 69 & 70 (October 2006)

Shearsman 67 & 68 (April 2006)

Shearsman 65 & 66 (October 2005)

Shearsman 63 & 64 (April 2005)














