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Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky 9781848616066
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €19.11Klange (Sounds) was Kandinsky's only poetry publication-a collection of prose poems, accompanied by 56 of his own inimitable woodcuts, 12 of them in colour. It appeared in late 1912, or early 1913... -
Jerzyk: Diaries, Texts and Testimonies of the Urman Family by Anthony Rudolf 9781848613690
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88On 13 November 1943, Jerzy Feliks Urman (known as Jerzyk) killed himself, thinking the Gestapo had arrived. He was eleven and a half. He and his family were in hiding in Drohobycz, during the German... -
Language Being Time by John Phillips 9781848619463
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"Some poets live deep back, quietly, in far places, still. I love the poetry of my friend, John Phillips. He is a master of the compressed, cut lyric." —Kent Johnson."John Phillips writes with a... -
Landscape with Light by Jon Thompson 9781848613492
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Otherworldly, uncanny, melancholy, there like the past, like the present, the place (not the people) remains: a glimpse, a flicker, a trick of light that excavates the dark, the endless accretion of... -
Burn by Andre Bagoo 9781848614154
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"Burn is a kaleidoscopic, surreal and stunning collection. Bagoo forges carnivalesque, enigmatic, experimental, vivid, wild and wonder-inspiring poems full of verve and utterly fresh language... -
Kobe House P.O.W. No. 13 by A. J. Locke 9781848612280
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.061st Sergeant Arthur "Bud" Locke was based at Clark Field in the Philippines, as part of the USAAF's Far East Air Service Command, in 1941. He was taken prisoner with many others in the... -
Selected Poems by Peter Hughes 9781848612716
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Peter Hughes, born in 1956, has been writing for 30 years, and this volume sums up his career to date. Already the author of two-and-a-half Shearsman collections, and editor of a Shearsman anthology... -
Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets by Carrie Etter 9781848610996
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06This is an anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily... -
No. 25 by Geraldine Clarkson 9781848616158
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71On Geraldine Clarkson's previous chapbook: "Joseph Brodsky wrote joyously about W.H. Auden's range of diction, claiming that Auden ladles from every puddle. Reading Geraldine Clarkson's... -
Tidal Events: Selected Poems by Maria Ferencuhova 9781848615748
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Maria Ferencuhova has emerged as one of the most promising and original European poets of the twenty-first century and is a rising star at international festivals. Beginning as one of the cool,... -
Hazard or Fall by Catherine Hales 9781848611139
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22'I think the necessity of poetry is to irritate, to evoke the uncomfortable response. Scraps of language from different places and registers-radio, tv, conversations, lawyer-speak, etc. coalesce and... -
Adam by Vicente Huidobro 9781848617759
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Adam, published in 1916, is Huidobro's earliest mature work and his first attempt at free verse. While still full of rhetorical gestures from his previous symbolist (or modernista) style, heavily... -
Fragmented Waters by Ron Winkler 9781848615045
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €11.21Born in 1973, Ron Winkler is one of the leading poets of his generation in Germany. "In his poetry he demonstrates in a sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling way how an ever greater part of... -
Beyond the Fire by Mary Leader 9781848611221
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22The work in Mary Leader's third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own... -
in the final year of my 40s by Simon Perril 9781848616141
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71In the final year of my 40s I shall abdicate responsibility for all my poems say, do, or be so they might get a life away from me. Join Simon Perril as he writes an ecstatically elastic 50th birthday... -
The Allen Fisher Companion by Robert Hampson 9781848616264
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €17.50The essays included here cover the range of Fisher’s career. Redell Olsen and cris cheek discuss Fisher’s relations to Fluxus and the documentary. Will Rowe approaches Place in terms of the... -
Halse for Hazel by Frances Presley 9781848613409
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Halse is Exmoor dialect for hazel, as transcribed by local historian Hazel Eardley-Wilmot: a convergence of names which initiates a new poetic syntax of marginal trees and tongues. Halse for hazel... -
My Resignation by Maureen Thorson 9781848613447
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22How does one overcome the thought that "past failures dictate future performance"? Maureen Thorson's second book of poetry follows a couple as they put their separate histories behind them... -
My Pale Tulip by John Muckle 9781848612167
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06There wasn't much to do in the battered, half-forgotten seaside resort of Jaywick Sands, Essex - nothing really, except to listen to the North Sea pound against the sea-defences and wait for the next... -
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson 9781905700486
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22A first book by a young New Zealand poet, whose work - experimental in form - owes much to music and to developments in American poetry in the latter half of the 20th century. While consciously... -
The Ocean Liner's Wake by Ellen Wehle 9781848610712
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Lush, languid, enamored with the natural world, "The Ocean Liner's Wake" is a book of longing. In these wide-ranging poems the 'Other' takes many forms: lover or God, a bridge, a sprig of forsythia... -
Skyquake: Temblor de cielo by Vicente Huidobro 9781848619791
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Temblor de cielo was written in 1928. A more unified work than its contemporary, Altazor - although published in 1931, that work was longer in gestation - this might owe more to its style of... -
Mouth by James Sutherland-Smith 9781848613539
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"This is a masterpiece. The love poetry is especially beautiful. The entire sequence is in a way a love poem (and therefore must include some hate). The poem is a fine discourse on language,... -
Beneath the Rime by Siriol Troup 9781848610309
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"Beneath the Rime" is Sriol Troup's second collection of poems. Rooted in real and imagined landscapes, the poems in this volume explore memory, art and language, asking above all what it... -
Internal Rhyme by Scott Thurston 9781848610903
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.22"Internal Rhyme" is a sequence in four parts which continues the author's preoccupation with time and process as compositional elements. The book also explores how meaning can change when... -
The China Shop Pictures by Robert Saxton 9781848612563
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36The China Shop Pictures ranges widely in time, space and subject matter, encompassing Jacobite wine glasses, pedagogical horses, a Japanese invention for walking on water, and a medley of viewpoints... -
Matronymics by Kate Ashton 9781848618916
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22In her second collection Kate Ashton examines woman's estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity. Born into her biological destiny, woman is harnessed at adolescence to... -
Convalescence Dance by Alexandra Sashe 9781848615502
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Alexandra Sashe is a Russian poet who now lives in Vienna, and writes in English, her fourth language. This is her second Shearsman collection, following 2014's Antibodies. A poet whose work is... -
Anime Animus Anima by Jaime Robles 9781848610880
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"Anime, Animus, Anima" is formed from a mass of influences but most prominently from three classic Japanese anime. Parts One and Three evolved from imagery in "Ghost in the Shell"... -
Cadastral Map by Jill Magi 9781848611726
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02In Cadastral Map, Jill Magi writes: "I enter as a writer, one kind of mapmaker, needing to ask, is traditional nature writing in English a cadastral map? Abstracting, narrowing, taking an... -
199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees by 9781848614307
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88Sascha Akhtar's method-writing invites the poetry into a pre-envisaged form which is then adhered to stringently. The manuscript was written continuously on exactly 199 pages. The poet was interested... -
Equilibrium's Form by Susanne Dyckman 9781905700202
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22In Susanne Dyckman's first full-length collection, following from her Etherdome Press chapbook published in 2005, poetic tonalities and phrasings are used to disrupt the chronology of past and... -
The Phoenix Nest by (R S Of the Inner Temple) Anonymous (R S of the Inner Temple) 9781848611047
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Following the publication of "Tottel's Miscellany" in 1557, a number of other such miscellanies appeared, none of them especially significant from an artistic point of view. In 1593,... -
Stigmata by Gezim Hajdari 9781848614413
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Gezim Hajdari (b. 1957) was born in Lushnja, Albania, but has lived in Frosinone, Italy, since 1992, initially in the ruins of an abandoned building, but now in an apartment that he was awarded by... -
Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows 9781848616356
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Uncommon Place is a book rooted in Scotland's mountains and open spaces, its fenced enclosures and mined ground. It develops from earlier books what Tom Leonard has called "the most intelligent... -
Shearsman 121 & 122 by Tony Frazer 9781848616783
Booksplease Price: €11.21The second double-issue of Shearsman for 2019 features poetry by Clark Allison, Annemarie Austin, Benjamin Balint, Miranda Lynn Barnes, Alison Brackenbury, Rachael Clyne, Andrew Duncan, Chris Emery,... -
Collected Poems by Michael Smith 9781848610538
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06Michael Smith was born in Dublin in 1942, and is well-known for his poetry, his editorial work, his translations of Spanish poetry (many of them for Shearsman Books), and his polemical support for... -
The Body in Space by Gerrie Fellows 9781848613430
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22This is a poetry of layers and echoes. Poems which bring together people and places - family relationships enacted through webs of intimacy or distance, the dead remembered in interleaved images of... -
rebel matter: poems 2000-2021 by Victor Rodriguez Nunez 9781848618527
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €15.02"This magnificent selection from two decades of work by Victor Rodriguez Nunez confirms his pivotal position in international poetry. Dissolving fixed identities and formal limitations alike,... -
Sur(rendering) by Mario Martin Gijon 9781848617049
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Mario Martin Gijon's (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short pas-sionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the poet immerses us in...