Recent titles - all available through bookstores, direct from the
press, or online - from Shearsman Books include
Nigel Wheale: Raw Skies. New & Selected Poems
Published January 2006. 148pp, 9"x6", paperback. £9.95 / $16.
ISBN-10 0-907562-75-2 || ISBN-13 978-0-907562-75-7
Raw Skies spans seven sequences of poems, written between 1979 and
2004, together with translations from the classical Arabic poet al-
Mutanabbí (304—354 AH, 915—965 CE) made by Walid Abdul-Hamid and the
author. Other books by Nigel Wheale are The Postmodern Arts
(Routledge 1995) and Writing and Society. Literacy, Print and
Politics 1590—1660 (Routledge 1999). His press, 'infernal methods',
has published pamphlets and collections since the 1970s, including
work by John Welch, Peter Riley and R. F. Langley.
Elaine Randell: Selected Poems 1970-2005
Published 30 November 2005. Paperback, 148pp, 8.5" x 5.5", £9.95 / $16.
ISBN-10 0-907562-71-X / ISBN-13 978-0-907562-71-xx
This volume showcases over 30 years' work by Elaine Randell, a poet
whose work has unaccountably drifted from public view these past
several years. The Selected Poems demonstrates what we have been
missing: a vibrant and original voice in an era too full of poetic
clones, and a mixture of lyric poems and decidedly unsettling
narative monologues, based on the author's experience of dealing with
children at risk.
Ilma Rakusa: A Farewell to Everything
Translated by Andrew Shields & Andrew Winnard
Published 2005. Paperback, 100pp, 8" x 5", £9.95 (UK) /$16 (USA).
ISBN-10 0-907562-77-9 / ISBN-13 978-0-907562-77-xx
A Farewell to Everything is a translation of the author's 1997 German
collection Ein Strich durch alles (Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt-am-
Main): ninety nine-line poems written over a one-year period. The
book is made available thanks to a translation grant from Pro
Helvetia, the Swiss Culture Foundation. Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946
in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, to a Hungarian mother and a Slovenian
father, and spent her childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste.
She lives in Zürich.
Catherine Walsh: City West
Published 2005. Paperback, 9"x6". 84pp. £8.95 / $14.
ISBN-10 090756254X || ISBN-13 9780907562542
Irish poet Catherine Walsh is noted for her long poems in
experimental forms, and City West, completed in 2000, is her most
recent such work, following Pitch (Pig Press, 1994) and Idir Eatortha
(Invisible Books, 1996). Until now City West has only been available
in an Irish small-press edition, with a tiny print-run. A subsequent
text, Optic Verve will be published by Shearsman in 2006.
Tom Lowenstein : Ancestors and Species. New & Selected Ethnographic
Poetry
Published October 2005. Paperback, 152pp, 9" x 6". £9.95 / $16.
ISBN-10 0-907562-74-4 || ISBN-13 978-0-907562-74-0
Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising,
above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative,
the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects
poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline
where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Ancestors
and Species makes it clear that Tom Lowenstein is one of Britain's
most remarkable poetic voices, fascinating and impossible to categorise.
Coming shortly: volumes by Martin Anderson, Christopher Gutkind,
Sarah Law, Scott Thurston, Peter Finch and Anthony Hawley. More
details at the Shearsman website.
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