'Agi Mishol, one of the most popular poets of Israel, captures the imagination and the heart of I...

Last Harvest brings together poems of place, poems on religion, poems on family and friendships, ...

'[...] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez's False Memory,...

Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgós) is a book-length sequence published in Mexico City in 2007...

'Em Strang’s poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideo-logical conc...

Osip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south-western Rus...

Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, both literal and spiritual. Each poem inv...

Colin Simms, poet, naturalist, and lifelong independent observer, was born in 1939, and lives as ...

Crab & Winkle is a warped Shepherd's Calendar for the age of climate change: a journal of Austral...

John Goodby's sequence of sixty-seven sonnets read as a tribute to Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the ...

Boombox is Rupert M. Loydell's third collection with Shearsman, and further demonstrates the auth...

In Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian...

Lion is a narrative of sorts, but it is necessarily disruptive and disjunctive: ideas and literar...

Comparisons considers the disparities between memory and expectation as well as the alteration in...

Peter Riley, writing in PN Review about Peter Hughes' previous Shearsman collection Nistanimera, ...

Memory and rehearsal. The cognitive processes upon which we have learned to depend, they keep us ...

The poems and prose poems in Anonymous Intruder navigate the vulnerabilities revealed in relation...

at maimonides table is constructed out of a complex series of unstable texts woven through four i...

Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from a Michelin guide, procuring pr...

'As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces ...

This is a collection in search of origins, a kind of 'delving', 'trying to get to the bottom of i...

'Seaport' deals with many aspects of the history and development of Liverpool, drawing on a wide ...

The life of George Oppen (1908-1984) thwarted the expectations of a literary career. After publis...

I think the necessity of poetry is to irritate, to evoke the uncomfortable response. Scraps of la...

These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in node...

The most striking image of extreme eros and extreme pain is that of Christ on the Cross. This boo...

Landscape, textiles, plant-forms, the mysterious taxonomies of perfume are here themes for poetry...

Peter Robinson's new collection, The Returning Sky, carefully sequences the poems written over th...

Colin Simms is a freelance naturalist, poet and motorcycle enthusiast, who is based in a remote p...

In March 2008 María do Cebreiro was invited by the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales to be the...

Warrant Error is not just a book about the war on terror, yet neither does it seek to evade it, b...

With a fragmented yet rich lyricism, Shifting Registers crosses borders between lost and rediscov...

Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry - though...

Beneath the Rime is Siriol Troup's second collection of poems, following Drowning up the Blue End...

Sixty-four improvisations, whose principle motifs are a stretch of a small river in Central Europ...

'Khaled Hakim is the great lost British experimental writer of the last quarter century. I believ...

'No Names Have Been Changed, Siriol Troup’s third collection, offers strong, strange visions. Her...

Building on his debut collection Radio Mast Horizon (Shearsman Books, 2013) Andrew Taylor takes t...

Alexandra Sashe is a bilingual poet. Born in Moscow in 1976, she studied paint­ing and linguistic...

'Aidan Semmens is a poet who has always been fearless in confronting the plight of the world with...

João is a book of sixty-two sonnets recounting twelve years of the life of a poet who travels wid...

Not Much to Say Really is an account of extended conversations with four elderly patients in hosp...

Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alask...

Prepare for some adventures in 'Perihelion'. These poems evoke shifting states of mind and heart,...

'Facing West achieves true illuminations of the places and uses of myth. Corcoran’s lines balance...

'There is nobody writing prose poetry in any way close to Lucy Hamilton’s. Of Heads & Hearts is a...

After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves ...

'Phillips would have us look no further than the poem itself for the primary matter of its own ac...