The following are all now available:

NEW E-BOOKS, available for free download from the Shearsman website:


Mark Weiss: Different Birds (44pp, 248kb)

M T C Cronin: Talking to Neruda's Questions (78pp, 172kb)

Go to:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_home.html

and click on the covers to download.


NEW BOOKS
Available through the book-trade, from mail-order outlets such as Peter
Riley's and Alan Halsey's, from amazon.com & amazon.co.uk, and from
Salt Publishing's online store. The Amazon URLs listed below tend to
stretch over the length of one line. If you wish to use them, it would
be best to cut-and paste the entire address into your browser window
rather than simply clicking on them.


GLORIA GERVITZ: Migrations / Migraciones.
ISBN 0-907562-49-3. 400pp, paperback, £15.95. 9.25ins x 7.5ins
(Not for sale in North America; Junction Press, San Diego will publish
the US edition in September.)

Translated by Mark Schafer, this is the first publication in English of
Gloria Gervitz's epic life-poem Migrations, begun over 25 years ago,
and completed in 2003.

"To say that this is a book of the immigrant experience – which in
some sense it is – is to underrate the range of form & feeling that
Gervitz brings to it, creating thereby an epic of the migratory self.
Like Pound's 'Cantos' or Zukofsky's 'A', hers is the work of a
lifetime: a life's work including not only autobiography and familial
memories as a kind of history but rife with religious and mystical
imagery from Jewish kabbala to Mexican folk Catholicism and beyond.
'Migrations' takes its place with theirs as a long and difficult poem
which is the achievement of a great poetic talent: a complex tribute to
the complex world from which it comes." – Jerome Rothenberg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0907562493/qid=1092389548/
sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_8_2/026-6234139-4252411

http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/products.php?cat=41

TESSA RANSFORD (editor/translator): The Nightingale Question: 5 Poets
from Saxony
with portraits of the poets by Joyce Gunn-Cairns.
ISBN 0-907562-52-3. 108pp, paperback, £8.95 / $13.95. 8.5ins x 5.5ins.

In the 2002, poet Tessa Ransford and artist Joyce Gunn-Cairns travelled
to Leipzig as part of a Scottish Arts Council travel award. While
there, Tessa investigated the local poetry scene and translated 5 poets
who are based in Saxony: one in Weimar, one near Dresden and three
from Leipzig itself. Joyce sketched portarits of each of the writers
and made the portrait photographs that grace the cover of this book.
The poets included are Wulf Kirsten, Uta Mauersberger, Andreas Reimann,
Thomas Rosenloecher, Elmar Schenkel and Tessa Ransford herself.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0907562523/qid=1092389548/
sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_8_3/026-6234139-4252411

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0907562523/
qid=1092389357/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7633892-0138200?v=glance&s=books

http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/products.php?cat=41


PETER PHILPOTT: Textual Possessions
ISBN 0-907562-53-1. Paperback, 132pp, £9.95 / $15.95. 9ins x 6ins.

Textual Possessions is the first large collection by Peter Philpott for
many years. This volume brings together three long sequences of poems:
'In the Present Historic Tense', 'An Encounter Upon the Beach at
Minehead With the Prince of This World', and 'On Being Voiced'. Peter
Philpott is editor of the online poetry journal Great Works.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0907562531/qid=1092389548/
sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/026-6234139-4252411

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0907562531/
qid=1092389357/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7633892-0138200?v=glance&s=books

http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/products.php?cat=23


COLIN SIMMS: Otters and Martens
ISBN 0-907562-50-7. Paperback, 162pp, £9.95 / $15.95. 9ins x 6ins.

Simms' first major British collection in some years, and his
largest-ever collection, this volume unites all of his poems that
concern or revolve around otters and martens, poems in which his
concerns as a poet fuse with those of the naturalist that he also is.
For lovers of poetry and mustelidae alike.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0907562507/qid=1092389473/
sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_8_2/026-6234139-4252411

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0907562507/
qid=1092389357/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-7633892-0138200?v=glance&s=books

http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/products.php?cat=23


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