Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained ...

Kandinsky’s poetry is little known in the English-speaking world, even amongst lovers of his art. Klaenge appeared from Piper Verlag in Munich ...

The earliest poem in this book ('The Sleeper's Blue Shirt') is from 1972. The most recent poems are from 2022. Ken Bolton edited this selection, drawing ...

In later life, while living in London, George Claessen returned to poetry, often interrogating the same metaphysical themes he explored in his abstracts. ...

In her debut collection The Lost Book of Barkynge , Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval ...

"Whether Alice Kavounas is walking the bounds of her home in Cornwall, speaking across time to her brother, or wryly contemplating two funerary caskets ...

The first double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2023 features poetry by Martin Anderson, Nora Blascsok, Melissa Buckheit, Stuart Cooke, Carrie Etter ...

In his new book of poems, Anthony Caleshu writes after the visual art of Julie Curtiss, Jadé Fadojutimi, Shara Hughes, Shio Kusaka, Henry Taylor ...

Due North is a poem in twelve chapters concerned with human movement northwards or out in the quest for work, subsistence, settlement and gratification ...

Disppearance is Lesley Harrison’s first full-length collection, bringing together new work which examines the coastline and our uneasy, unresolved ...

A rottenness at the heart of things, mapped onto England - London and other cities, the Midlands - and various narratives, manifests via apocalyptic omens ...

Colin Simms, poet, naturalist, and lifelong independent observer, was born in 1939, and lives as an author and freelance naturalist in the North of England ...

In her fifth book, Janet Sutherland explores journals written by her great-great-grandfather, George Davies, as he travelled to Serbia with his Queen's ...

Tender Geometries , the author's first full-length collection, brings together a selection of writing exploring networks of connection. 'The Tangles' ...

When I approach experimental poetry, particularly when it's related to images - the ekphrastic relationship - I ask myself, does it work? By that I mean ...

On Light Sources and Landing Rights : "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical."  The Chicago Review ...

The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2023 features poetry by Serena Alagappan, Wendy Allen, Mark Byers, Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell, Peter ...

'How do you get mortal harmony out of a stone box into the moving air? With ash and ink, and sing a lyric air with passion.' "Proof..." asks and ...

"Thurston's poems always danced, as the early writings here demonstrate, in line and spacing, long before dance as a practice became his poetic focus ...

These verses are from goshawk observations since 1955; my first experiences of the bird in the wild overseas—anecdotes of camp life, falconers, ...

  "I go to Ian Seed's poetry whenever I need reminding of the possibilities or a good slap in the inspiration. A master of the prose poem and the ...

Petra White is a distinctive voice in Australian poetry. That Galloping Horse is her sixth collection, and the first to introduce her to UK readers. ...

In his fourth collection from Shearsman Books, Alasdair Paterson ranges as widely as ever - from the bewilderments of a Scottish childhood to the mixed ...

Colours Nailed to the Mast is not so much a memoir as an immemoir , fretting at traces, gaps and losses that start to expose absence as the productive ...

Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense ...

From 1912 to 1920 Marina Tsvetaeva wrote copiously but published no books. Later she would claim that at least three major collections had fallen by the ...

This volume includes the 4 chapbooks published in 1917-18 and presents, at first glance, an odd mixture. Chronologically, we have  El espejo de agua ...

'Across an already diverse and courageously experimental body of work Cave has proved herself a poet and artist always worth anticipating with excitement. ...

"Indelible and deeply resonant, Linda Black's Interior demonstrates a poet at the peak of their powers. This collection constitutes a wondrous neo-Cartesian ...

The first double issue of  Shearsman  magazine for 2024 contains poetry by Rizwan Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Jack Barron, Leia K. Bradley, Tom ...