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Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he returned to these materials in the wake of a near fatal stroke.

These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem.

This second edition, issued on the 10th anniversary of its first publication, is presented in a larger format, with a larger typeface, and with a few very minor typographical errors corrected, but is otherwise unchanged. This collection covers the author's work from the early 1960s to 2001.

Issued at the same time as the third volume of Martin Anderson's Hoplite Journals, Shearsman Books now makes available a compendium edition of all three volumes under one set of covers, and in a larger format.

Threads of Iron is Duncan's lost debut volume: not because it was never published, but because it never appeared as intended. Instead, the original was split into two and was published in two parts by Reality Street (in 1991) and by Shearsman Books (in 2000). A further section was cut and became Sound Surface (now collected in In Five Eyes).

The title should be read in the ambivalence which it spontaneously suggests: on the one hand, it is an opposition between bodies, a you as an anti-I, both on the emotive and physical levels; and, on the other hand, now taken in its proper sense, it is antibodies which ensure healing. The tension of this ambivalence forms the axis of the collection.

The bass guitar creates patterns that make music into a visceral experience - they are what infect the body. The poems in here are in dialog with other authors, and here, experimental poetry engages Quine, Melville, Irigaray, Deleuze, Aquinas, Dragomoshchenko, Hejinian, Raworth, Baudelaire, Celan, Vertov and others.

Chronologically the first, Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 is editorially the third of John Matthias's three-volume Shearsman Collected Poems. It includes the poems that first made Matthias's reputation, and completes the set of the author's Collected Poems.

The first comprehensive study of Rosmarie Waldrop's work, this engrossing volume engages with all aspects of the poet's work.

For the Greek Spring is a selection of Kelvin Corcoran's poetry about Greece, combining new work with poems from his previous collections. The poet's sustained engagement with Greece is evident at every turn.

In Five Eyes recovers two almost-lost collections of poems - Sound Surface & Surveillance and Compliance - published some 20 and 10 years ago, respectively, but which were written in the 1980s and early 1990s. Published originally in fugitive editions, these two collections fill out the picture of Duncan's earlier work.

Peter 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 devoted to poets from his own chapbook press, Oystercatcher, this volume will cement his reputation as one of the UK's most interesting, and unclassifi

No film in the camera is a collection of prose poems about photographs by professional photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesca Woodman, Bill Brandt, Letticia Battaglia and Jitka Hanzlova - and also about personal photos and recollections of photos, about what photographs reveal and conceal.

A survey of the life's work of one of America's most original avant-garde poets and playwrights.

A collection of perhaps the shortest novels ever written, by poet Eileen Tabios.

Ovid expressed the truth that to change is to survive, and this message erupts out of the poems in Condition of Fire-composed in the Aeolian Isles, and influenced by Ovid's tales-whose language and images strive to communicate in new ways the essential elements of myth, creation and the burning breath of being.

The Ring is a sequence of poems in which a new young widow, moves from the strangeness of city to city, (from Copenhagen to London to Rome to Paris) trying to come to terms with her loss while looking forward to a possible new life. The title poem concludes the volume where the widow suggestively lets go of some of her past by taking off her ring.

A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some Word is no exception; equal parts distilled language, contrary, and pushing everyday language out of conformity.

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 also includes an autobiographical piece on Fisher's early years as well as other short prose pieces that are otherwise unobtainable.

The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2010, containing new poetry by, among others, Linda Black, Claire Crowther, Giles Goodland, Mark Goodwin, Mary Leader, Tom Lowenstein, Christopher Middleton, Frances Presley, Peter Riley, ZoA" Skoulding and Janet Sutherland.

In this collection Anne Blonstein continues to explore the possibilities of novel poetic forms. These poems have been compared to gemstones, changing "in sense and shape and sound according to the particular sign (or space) that catches the eye, or the breath".

A collection of essays, both personal and literary, by American poet, John Matthias.

Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry- though, like his sports headlines, his verse is grounded in word-play and natural speech rhythms. In his first full-length collection he engages death, complexity, and the Authorised Version, which provides several of his titles.

I have organized Parallel Lines somewhat chronologically. There are stylistic (not thematic) groupings which break the chronology and there are repetitions, such as a number of "breath" poems, which go counter to the breaks and provide connections.

Studies in Classic American Literature [...] is at once a work of cultural criticism, a study and critique of American myths, a meditation on the relationship between the Old World and the New, a new theory of the self ... and one of the greatest covert autobiographies in world literature.