Shearsman books exeter (258 risultati)

softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 95 pp.

softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 87 pp.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. R.F. Langley's 'Collected Poems' (Carcanet, 2000) was one of the poetic highlights of recent times, showing a sometimes sceptical public that a contemporary poet could still engage with the shades of Modernism and produce fascinating and original work. Throughout his life, the author has been maintaining a journal, which is part diary, part autobiography and part commonplace book; some extracts from these fascinating volumes have been appearing in 'P N Review' since 2002. This book offers a number of selections, ranging in time from 1970 to 2005, which will give admirers of his poetry a clearer idea of the author's other writings, which run in parallel with his poetry and sometimes provide the underpinnings for it. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Like new with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Poetry; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages.

Original pictorial wrappers. Condizione: Near Fine. 8vo; 144 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Ananios of Kleitor introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet ' largely unknown outside a small circle of cognoscenti. The poet's extant poems and fragments, as well as the record of their reception and preservation, are presented in this one-of-a-kind book, a medley of verse and prose and a diversity of genres, ranging from the epistolary novel to scholarly annotations and an Index Nominum. Ananios and his scholars and commentators perform their work at the edge of the real world and the margins of a thoroughly historicized and critically acute context.…

Softcover. Near fine.; 8vo.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Slight wear to the extremities.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Nice copy, slight shelf wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified longing for the passing ghost of European idealism. In the various enquiries and explorations of Model City this is also the mapping of a lived condition and its relationships not readily found on every street corner - nor in the broken ideologies from the populist bargain basement proffered by our political cadres. What becomes apparent is that the model city/Model City exists by virtue of a poet's wit and inventiveness, in its accomplished and elegantly measured language. Stonecipher's mesmerizing, epigrammatic fables establish the off-centre polis where, oddly, we find ourselves at home. - Kelvin Corcoran. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very good.; 8vo.

softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 120 pp.

softcover. Condizione: Nearly fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 123 pp., Slight bump to lower edge, else fine.

softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 125 pp., Edited by Tony Frazer., Translated by Anamaria Crow Serrano, Ruth Fainlight, Luis Ingelmo & Michael Smith and John Oliver Simon.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and, in the decades since, he has built a solid reputation as a translator of Scandinavian poets, such as Tomas Transtroemer, Kjell Espmark and Harry Martinson from Swedish and Olav H. Hauge from Norwegian. His A Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 1960-2010 (Marick Press, 2013) was described by Carol Rumens in The Guardian as "a major achievement, enriching the habitat of contemporary letters in our own archipelago and beyond." John Glenday, in Northwards Now, referred to the book as "a real treasure of a collection, a weighty, important reminder that Fulton Macpherson is a prominent figure in Scottish poetry. His poetry is enduring as granite. It will weather well", while Peter M. McDonald, in Rain Taxi, felt certain that "A Northern Habitat will stand the test of time. It is arguably the most important book yet from a Scottish poet in this new millennium.". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Drawing from, and reflecting on, the experience of teenage years stilled by illness and pain, for this, her second collection, Keri Finlayson has made poems concerned with the complementarity and tension of movement and stasis.Many of the poems explore the meanings of textile as a weight and as a constant, as covering and as clothing. Some take comfort in the reassuring permanence of trees. Others, by contrast, represent fluidity: the flow of gossip, bird song, nursery rhymes, smoke, speech and scent; things that might move around the still island of the body or the bed. Here poetry is shown to be an attempt to make objects out of all that movement, and all that stillness. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. British First. Inscribed by Lynne Hjelmgaard on the title page; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This is the story of a baby coming into the world, and of her first year in that world altered beyond recognition by a virus born into our lives at nearly the same time. It is a song of breath, and of light. It is a collection of love poems, and a cry flung into the universe echoing the cry of all babies, a cry of loss and of nearly unbearable love. It is a book not just for pregnant women, or new mums and dads, but for all people who have entered through that small crack into the light of this life, and for all who have parents and have grappled with the joys and challenges of those most intimate of relationships. It is a song of light, and of breath. It is a story of where we come from."This collection not only exalts, is frightened for, and treasures new motherhood, but allows for its complexities and the terrible potential for loss, and especially I like how it doesn't amputate mother-love from just the way we love as humans, sensuously and sometimes messily. It never slips into 'saintly mother' territory - it seems to recognise the burden that particular role has placed on women - for those who chose to have kids and those who didn't." -Lynn Davidson JL WIlliams' new collection, her fourth with Shearsman Books, revolves around childbirth and motherhood. The intensity of life suffuses the whole volume. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting the frozen rivers of Siberia, lured to the summit and drawn to the edge - Alasdair Paterson plots a course at the cruising speed of the flaneur through the ruins of empires, dreams and good intentions. Though pavement cafes still play a part. From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting the frozen rivers of Siberia - Alasdair Paterson plots a course at the cruising speed of the flaneur through the ruins of empires and dreams. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In her fifth book, Janet Sutherland explores journals written by her great-great-grandfather, George Davies, as he travelled to Serbia with his Queen's Messenger friend, Mr Gutch, in 1846 and 1847. She writes her own journals during a trip to Hungary and Serbia in 2018 and after her cancer diagnosis and treatment during the first Covid lockdowns of 2020. Poems, journals, letters, messenger regulations and other testimony, both imaginary and actual, question, answer and echo each other in a radical collage. All the writers are grappling with uncertainties. Sutherland is intrigued by what these testimonies reveal and hide. Part history, part poetry, part travelogue these journals, poems and other writings interweave the then and now, the observed and imagined. What do we know about these messages and their messengers? What secrets and possibilities might these words carry? What can they tell us about ourselves? Andrew McMillan writes: "A poetic, kaleidoscopic compendium of diary, letters, photographs, facts, and poetry, as is said within the book "the text unhinges from story, fragments link and unlink". This is a space where 'everything's in motion' - the tectonic plates of varied forms and lives moving deftly across each other.". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. In her fifth book, Janet Sutherland explores journals written by her great-great-grandfather, George Davies, as he travelled to Serbia with his Queen's Messenger friend, Mr Gutch, in 1846 and 1847. She writes her own journals during a trip to Hungary and Serbia in 2018 and after her cancer diagnosis and treatment during the first Covid lockdowns of 2020. Poems, journals, letters, messenger regulations and other testimony, both imaginary and actual, question, answer and echo each other in a radical collage. All the writers are grappling with uncertainties. Sutherland is intrigued by what these testimonies reveal and hide. Part history, part poetry, part travelogue these journals, poems and other writings interweave the then and now, the observed and imagined. What do we know about these messages and their messengers? What secrets and possibilities might these words carry? What can they tell us about ourselves? Andrew McMillan writes: "A poetic, kaleidoscopic compendium of diary, letters, photographs, facts, and poetry, as is said within the book "the text unhinges from story, fragments link and unlink". This is a space where 'everything's in motion' - the tectonic plates of varied forms and lives moving deftly across each other.".…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The prose-poem Temblor de cielo is more apparently unified work than its companion, Altazor, although this might owe more to its style of delivery: an ecstatic outpouring of words that largely revolve around the themes of love, sex and death. The Isolde to whom much of the poem is addressed is an idealised feminine figure-part goddess, part idealised beloved, part Isolde from Wagner's opera (another ecstatic outpouring on the theme of love, sex and death) and part Ximena Amunategui, the young woman who had become the poet's second wife. I tend to think that the central impetus for the work is an erotic storm occasioned by the second Mrs Huidobro, notwithstanding the artistic fusion with the other elements mentioned above. The poem is also a sustained lyric effusion of a kind that Huidobro had never produced before, and it marks the point at which his work moves on from the barnstorming avant-garderie of his younger years to a more mature style, albeit one influenced by surrealism, a movement which Huidobro had previously attacked. It is also the last time that Huidobro was to adopt the god-like narrative persona that occurs in his earlier work. In Temblor, as in some earlier works, God is conflated with the poet-creator, as he is in Altazor, where the opening lines reflect the opening of a love-poem addressed to Ximena that the author published (to great scandal) in the Santiago newspaper, La Nacion: "Naci a los treinta y tres anos, el dia de la muerte de Cristo" [I was born at the age of thirty three, on the day Christ died]. (It should be noted that the author was 33 when he first met Ximena, which gives the imagery another dimension.) Skyquake is a sustained lyric effusion of a kind that Huidobro had not previously produced, and it marks the point at which his work moves on from the barnstorming avant-garderie of his younger years to a more mature style, albeit one influenced by surrealism. A book-length prose-poems on the thermos of love, sex and death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback. A very good copy. TS. Used.

Condizione: Near fine condition. Translated by Chris Daniels. Perfect-bound octavo (6 x 9 inches) in pictorial wraps, 199 pp.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Softcover. 9781905700028. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers about 5.5" x 8.5", 107+ pages. Fine. whb11E.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Slim collection of poems. A fine copy in wrappers.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. European Hymns is Andrew Taylor's fourth collection published by Shearsman Books. Over four sections, the book traces the calendar year throughout the seasons. Beginning with the optimism that spring brings, the book offers up the arrival of the nightingales in rural France (an ongoing interest of Taylor's) then navigates through summer trips to cities, takes in periods of reflection amongst the closing down of a summer house, the sudden shift to Autumn and the inevitable descent into winter. This is Taylor's most wide-ranging collection to-date, in turns, observatory and detailed. The poems also deal with the changes in the natural world, while others offer snapshots of moments in time, with Taylor often re-employing his minimalist practice to useful effect. From reviews of Not There-Here (2021):'It's exhilarating, refreshing writing.' -Rupert Loydell, Stride Magazine 'In a sense these poems are cubist, presenting multiple perspectives of a scene or an event without privileging any single one. The poems deny a single, omniscient self. It's a natural human tendency to impose a narrative on experience, and these poems seem to be trying to strip that away and present experience as it is.' -Alan Baker, Litter Magazine From reviews of March (2017)'A blast of refreshing air in the gloom of Fenland Winter' -John James'"Honesty Box" is the most recent example of how Taylor's words can present a more lasting reflection of Time's inexorable progress. It is an important poem and one that deserves some serious consideration as the latest example of a fine genre in which a human individual contemplates both movement and stasis' -Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence From reviews of Radio Mast Horizon (2013)'Andrew Taylor's work is an expression of everyday life in all its vivid details: colour, sound, speed and technology weave through the poems. Taylor constantly surprises us with his shifts and juxtapositions, all of the world is in these poems.' -Jeremy Hilton, Tears in the Fence'Taylor achieves something of happiness for both the writer and the reader.' -Anthony Caleshu, New Walk. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. First Edition. Gift inscriptions on title page signed by author 'from Steve'. 86 pages with Primary Sources at end. Tucked insde is a letter sent to the same person showing in the gift inscripion, signed by the author 'S Spence'. PAGES: 86 with Primary Sources at the end. Unmarked throughout and tight binding. The cover has a crease at rear bottom corner. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condizione: NEW. First edition. 94pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. From the publisher: The poems in black seeds on a white dish spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focusby destabilizing everything in its reach, loss disables rigidity. These poems shift widely in form and tone, and seeds invoke the creative germ that spurs the metamorphoses occupying them: "Nothing to do but let the form of things take over." Shapes themselves, including punctuation, become a language throughout.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good copy. (see picture).

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Inscribed by the poet on title page. Inscribed by Author(s).