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Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way by Linda Russo 9781848613935
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The poems in Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way arise amidst those remnants, historical and everyday, that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek... -
The Wine Cup by Richard Berengarten 9781848618503
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Sonnet-sequences have a history of nearly 1,000 years. But a sequence of villanelles? Here, perhaps for the first time ever in English, is a suite of twenty-four of them. The delicate instrument of... -
Without by Maxine Chernoff 9781848611962
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The series of poems in Maxine Chernoff's Without are elegiac brushstrokes, each somewhat feathery and brushing in more than one direction, which creates tension and unexpected arrivals as well as... -
Of Heads & Hearts by Lucy Hamilton 9781848615717
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"There is nobody writing prose poetry in any way close to Lucy Hamilton's. Of Heads & Hearts is an intricate and rich collection that riffs on the interconnectedness of human relationships... -
Spring in the Ruined City: Selected Poems by Fu Du 9781848610002
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), is celebrated as the greatest moment in Chinese poetry, a time when poetry was highly rated, and some of China's most famous poets were writing. Du Fu (712-770 AD) is... -
Tell me no more and tell me by Ralph Hawkins 9781848617766
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Tell Me No More and Tell Me, first published in 1981 focuses upon the poet's immediate surroundings, the Essex marshes and the small black timber framed cottage he lived in at the time. Looking back,... -
Words of Mercury by Alasdair Paterson 9781848619067
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In his fourth collection from Shearsman Books, Alasdair Paterson ranges as widely as ever — from the bewilderments of a Scottish childhood to the mixed messages of later life, from gnarly nature... -
Interviews Through Time by Roy Fisher 9781848612983
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes... -
The Other Woman by Toby Olson 9781848614277
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In 2014, Toby Olson's wife Miriam died at the age 80, and after nearly 50 years of marriage. She had suffered from Alzheimer's for some years before her death and Toby became her principal carer... -
Maldon: A Version by Michael Smith 9781848616530
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Maldon is a version of the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment usually known as The Battle of Maldon, which tells the tale of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading Vikings which took place ca. 991... -
Sweet Dust and Growling Lambs: Three Books by Phil Maillard 9781905700837
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Looking at this collection, Sweet Dust And Growling Lambs, I think I can perceive a few recurrent themes. The first relates to mythology, in a broad, story-telling kind of fashion. Of recent... -
Model City by Donna Stonecipher 9781848613881
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns... -
Tocayo: New and Selected Poems and Songs by Joe Doerr 9781848614710
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Poetry. "By turns erudite and lyrical, esoteric and oracular, profane and ethereal Joe Doerr's TOCAYO contains multitudes. This vast miscellany, a bravura poetic performance by every measure,... -
Blood Party by Merle Lyn Bachman 9781848614147
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Merle Bachman's Blood Party is a remarkable memoir, told in fragments, interruptions-in ways that prohibit any fixed retelling. In it, the impossibility of telling becomes the story: of... -
Goodbye Tissues by Deborah Meadows 9781848610132
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"From Anglo-Saxon diphthongs to that mysterious three-dimensional mirrored state of being, the enantiomorph, from Aquinas to Holderlin to California, Deborah Meadows takes us on a journey... -
Bona Vada by Jeremy Reed 9781848611641
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Companion volume to Jeremy Reed's 2009 collection, Bona Drag.Book InformationISBN 9781848611641Author Jeremy ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
Bernard Spencer - Essays on His Poetry & Life by Peter Robinson 9781848612549
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50When Bernard Spencer died in September 1963, he left behind two collections of poetry and a volume of collaborative translations from George Seferis. The second of these collections, With Luck... -
Miracle of Mexico: Poems by Alfonso Reyes 9781848616882
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) was the leading Mexican writer of his time. He was revered by his great successor Octavio Paz, a writer who, like himself, was also an Ambassador. Enormously prolific, he... -
Vauxhall by Catherine Daly 9781905700714
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Vauxhall is pitched where voice and experience coincide. The poems sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and ven-ding machines. Vauxhall... -
Twitters for a Lark: Poetry of the European Union of Imaginary Authors by Robert Sheppard 9781848615656
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The EUOIA is the brainchild of Belgian poet Rene Van Valckenborch. For his last project before his disappearance around 2010, Van Valckenborch supposedly asked one poet from each of the EU states to... -
The Logic of the Stairwell by Marc Atkins 9781848611610
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces and scenarios. Here, in his writing, that world is disclosed in meticulous detail. It amounts to... -
Onwords and Upwords by Anamaria Crowe Serrano 9781848614574
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"In these poems, words are a scalpel that probes the shifting sands of meaning. Themes of identity, communication, love, loss and isolation are peeled pack to reveal, with devastating precision,... -
Upstate: A North American Journal by Jeremy Hooker 9781905700226
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Upstate is the journal of poet and lecturer Jeremy Hooker's time spent in North America during the academic year 1994-5. Like his earlier 'Welsh Journal' (Seren, 2001), which covered his first... -
Madrigals by Ilhan Berk 9781905700738
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'Madrigals' is a collection of poems by Turkey's leading experimental poet, an 89-year-old still at the height of his powers. With spare texts, sometimes with only a few words to a page, this... -
Its Halting Measure by John Welch 9781848612433
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Born in 1942, John Welch has lived for the last forty years in Hackney in east London, married to the painter Amanda Welch. In 2008 Shearsman Books published his Collected Poems. Shearsman also... -
Peter Robinson - a portrait of his work by Tom Phillips 9781848617445
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Peter Robinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1953 and grew up mainly in Liverpool. He is an internationally appreciated poet, whose Collected Poems was published by Shearsman Books in 2017, and... -
The Blue Butterfly: v. 3: Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten 9781848611771
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Taking its departure from both the Nazi massacre at Kragujevac in former Yugoslavia in 1941, and a moment at the memorial museum in 1985, when a blue butterfly descended onto Berengarten's writing... -
Identity Papers by Ian Seed 9781848614703
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The prose poems in Identity Papers seek to construct a living bridge between the self and its shadow, between the self and other, and between present and past. They do so with a vulnerable faith,... -
Warrant Error by Robert Sheppard 9781848610187
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Warrant Error is not just a book about the war on terror, yet neither does it seek to evade it, but to exceed it. Each sonnet in the four sets of 24 (plus 4 other poems, making a hundred) evokes a... -
Still - Life by Robert Vas Dias 9781848611214
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62In this generous assembling of work fromthe past ten years, the Anglo-American poet Robert Vas Dias explores meanings and resonances inherent in art and the suggestive implications of objects which... -
Last Kind Words by Peter Riley 9781848617285
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"The song, 'Last Kind Words Blues', was recorded in 1930 in a makeshift studio in Grafton, Wisconsin, and issued by Paramount Records as one side of a 78 rpm shellac disc with the musician's... -
A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric: Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully by Kenneth Keating 9781848617292
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.97"Maurice Scully is not a poet for whom experience is shrouded in words. He doesn't begin with complicated patterns of sound that disentangle into conventional forms, or a neat trope that encapsulates... -
Journals by R. F. Langley 9781905700004
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62R.F. Langley's 'Collected Poems' (Carcanet, 2000) was one of the poetic highlights of recent times, showing a sometimes sceptical public that a contemporary poet could still engage with the shades of... -
Selected Shorter Poems by Luiz Vaz de Camoes 9781848616769
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Luis Vaz de Camoes (ca.1524/25-1580) is reckoned the greatest poet in the Portuguese language, granting him a position in the national literature akin to that of Dante, Shakespeare, or Goethe. He... -
Diary of a Stroke by Jeremy Hooker 9781848615090
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Diary of a Stroke is a poet's journal with a difference. After suffering a stroke in July 1999, Jeremy Hooker kept a diary of his experience in hospital and of the subsequent period of recuperation... -
Abandoned Gardens: Selected and New Poems 1995-2016 by Alice Kavounas 9781848615366
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Here is a poet well-travelled in worlds both exterior and interior. Abandoned Gardens is a powerful and essential distillation from this poet's three collections, plus a substantial volume of... -
In Possession of Loss by M. T. C. Cronin 9781848613829
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"This is poetry that goes direct to that other place and inhabits it. in possession of loss has a clear sparseness, almost a minimalism, that is also highly complex. Read as a single book-length... -
More Words: Gael Turnbull on Poets and Poetry by Gael Turnbull 9781848610934
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34This volume brings together a number of hard-to-find reviews, essays, memoirs and journal pieces by Gael Turnbull, a central figure in the interaction between American and British poetry in the... -
The Rest of the World by Norman Jope 9781848617896
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'Geo-delirum' - as the title of one of the pieces puts it - is perhaps the guiding theme of this collection. Following on from Dreams of the Caucasus, Jope's prose poems occupy an interconnected -... -
Incognitum by Aubrie Marrin 9781848613973
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"What pleasure, what an incredible joy, to enter into this stunning museum, this rich and mesmerizing collection. Marrin's first book is a requiem, a gorgeous and strange diorama of beauty and...