Shearsman Books

01/08/2024

Congratulations to the five poets shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection!

The outstanding books in contention for the $17,500 prize are:

NAAG MOUNTAIN by Manisha Anjali (Giramondo Publishing)

RELIEFS by Jarad Bruinstroop (UQP)

THREE BOOKS by L.K. Holt (Vagabond Press)

VEHICULAR MAN by Mitchell Welch (Rabbit Poetry Journal)

THAT GALLOPING HORSE by Petra White (Shearsman Books)

Supported by Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund.

Head to our website to find out more: https://ow.ly/AMar50SMLEC

28/07/2024

Now available

Translated from Spanish by Tony Frazer. Published 2024. Paperback, 200pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $23 ISBN 9781848618176 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .] This posthumous collection was assembled by the author’s eldest daughter from his papers and works previously published in journals, an...

28/07/2024

Alasdair Paterson reviewed in The High Window.

***** Noel Connor & Joan Connor : Sharing the Shore, a Donegal Collection • Victoria Melkovska: For the birds • Alasdair Paterson: Words of Mercury • Yvette: In the Garden of Eden after a Hea…

28/07/2024

Good to see a new Indie bookstore stocking poetry, including Shearsman titles.... Support Dan and Andres if you're in, or visiting, Bristol.

The two poets are stocking books that are hard to find in other shops

23/07/2024

Billy Mills reviews Kate Ashton & Simon Perril

Matronymics, Kate Ashton, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781848618916, £10.95 Two Duets With Occasion, Simon Perril, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781848619449, £12.95 cipher, Chris Turnbull, Beauti…

19/07/2024

03/07/2024

Now available

03/07/2024

Our author Gëzim Hajdari has just been awarded the Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize (Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi) in Mantua. The image shows his Italian-language Selected Poems, which we will issue in English translation in 2025. Well, most of it — the Italian edition is huge!

Comune di Castel Goffredo Piazza Mazzini, 1 - 46042 - Castel Goffredo (MN)Codice Fiscale: 81001030204Partita IVA: 00521810200

27/06/2024

The poem is in the reissued edition of Palenque (2023)

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27/06/2024

Flight from the Mountaintop might well have been the earliest poem of Tarn's that was printed in Shearsman: here's page 1

27/06/2024

It is with great sadness that we must announce that our author, and great friend of the press, Nathaniel Tarn, passed away yesterday just days before his 96th birthday. He'd been unwell for several weeks, and his wife Janet Rodney passed away in April. Nathaniel's final manuscript is being edited for publication and we hope to put it out in the not-too-distant future. RIP Nathaniel. (Pic below, Nathaniel and Janet in Santa Fe, some 22 years ago...)

23/06/2024

Steve Spence reviews Sarah Cave's new book at Litter magazine

Steve Spence "The Book of Yona" by Sarah Cave, pub. Shearsman Books, 108pp. This is an ambitious undertaking from one of our younger poets...

10/06/2024

A date for your diaries, if you're in the Oxford area: we'll be at the Oxford Indie Book Fair on Saturday 6 July, 11.00 to 16:30, at the Magdalen College School, Oxford, OX4 1DZ. All part of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.

10/06/2024

An entire poem from our most recent issue, by the late Sophia Nugent-Siegal, with a commentary by her mother.

10/06/2024

Available from all good retailers... (for some reason, Facebook won't allow this to come up as a picture.....)

https://www.shearsman.com/store/Duncan-Wu-Origin-Myths-p624363110

10/06/2024

Available now

Published 2024. Paperback, 136pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20 ISBN 9781848619173 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .] Mounts Pond is a small urban pond on Blackheath, in south-east London, named for its dark earth. It is one of four ponds on the heath and the only one which comes and goes with ...

10/06/2024

Now available

Published 2024. Paperback, 9 x 6 ins, £10.95 ISBN 9781848619395 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .] Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, both literal and spiritual. Each poem invites the reader to consider ‘the necessity of mystery’, where grief and joy, death and r...

25/05/2024