Specialist publisher of poetry | est. 1981 | experimental poetry | prose poetry | poetry in translation | books & mag | editor Tony Frazer | Tweets @vikshirley
Oxfordshire, England
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My @ObsNewReview poetry picks are Karl O'Hanlon's Herron’s Dream Diary @ShearsmanBooks—some say surrealism has had its moment but this wildly imaginative debut proves otherwise—& Christopher Reid's slow yet striking Ordinary Morning Sunlight @FaberBooks☀️observer.co.uk/contributor/j…
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Every translator's experience? The translation of Culhwch ac Olwen will be published by @ShearsmanBooks in January. @GPCdictionary #Welsh
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JOHN MILBANK Some Speaking Swirls 2023 @ShearsmanBooks I first read MILBANK teaching at a Catholic college: as it happened the enfants terribles in charge didn’t approve. This poem about the mystery of grace—a superb lyric—mystery upon mystery, lead us on, “keeping pace.”
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JOHN MILBANK Some Sweaping Swirls: Poems @ShearsmanBooks Google JM, with Pickstock defender of Radical Orthodoxy; pick up this slender book and…An almost naive coherenc of image and concept. Wisdom literature? Color unifies a long stressful life. Ego pales. Good is.
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Hi, Tom! @TomSnarsky Continuing my appreciation for the awesome Geraldine @GBClarkson here is a superb one - BERYL-THE-PERIL BLUEBELL - from her 2023 full collection MEDLARS 5/5 Highly Recommended book for any day or night of the week! 👏💫👏 @ShearsmanBooks
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ALT BERYL-THE-PERIL BLUEBELL Tell me blue, you flower: Tell a querulus of best blue yo the flat white meadow stuck in picture-book reverie. Stalk joy with your stem and your airy, fairy bell. Stick your pistils out and, in that shot-silk thimble, ring like hell.
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I'm going to London next week for the St Andrew's Book Festival - speaking about my books "Jofrid Gunn" 27th Nov & "Daughters of the North" 29th Nov - full details & link to book tickets here: jennifermoraghenderson.com/2… @standrewsbkfest @ShearsmanBooks @WhittlesBooks
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Liquid Sand/Arena Líquida marks a major moment for Mexican poetry in English. It presents the first substantial bilingual selection of work by Jorge Valdés Díaz-Vélez, translated by Sue Burke and Christian Law-Palacín.
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3. MEDLARS 2023 pub by @ShearsmanBooks a full length collection which makes even plainer, the absurdist, tragi-comic nature of the human situation. Erudite, tactile, musical, & subversive, there's a clear love of language & nature & shrewd takes on human fuckwittery. Nuanced, too
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I’m excited to celebrate Christina Henneman’ debut BIRTHMARK @ShearsmanBooks @BooksUpstairs in company with @stingingfly poets @Eoinspoems @keane_byrne @thecalendarroad @poetryireland @dlrArts
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for Book Week Scotland, I will be at Forres Library on Monday 17th Nov, talking about my new book "Jofrid Gunn". The event starts at 2pm & is free (but please book via the library). All details here: jennifermoraghenderson.com/2… @ShearsmanBooks @scottishbktrust
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It seems to be Medlars time -- someone has brought me a bletted medlar on a dish! 😊 Fully-bletted copies of #Medlars still available from @ShearsmanBooks -- "Autumnal excrementa" (DH Lawrence) -- with superadded rottenness: shearsman.com/store/Geraldin… -- buy while still oozing! 🍑🧡
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Very thrilled by this lovely review of my Selected Poems from @ShearsmanBooks in today’s The Observer @ObsNewReview by the incredibly thoughtful @JadeCuttle.
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For the rotten season that's in it, two fruity reviews of my second full collection #Medlars from wondercritic @chrisedgoose and poet Matthew Paul 🍑🍑
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Vintage Medlars available from @ShearsmanBooks
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My review of Carrie Etter's Veer, Oscillate, Rest @ShearsmanBooks emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/…
