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Specialist publisher of poetry | est. 1981 | experimental poetry | prose poetry | poetry in translation | books & mag | editor Tony Frazer | Tweets @vikshirley
Oxfordshire, England
Joined November 2015
"The collection is extremely powerful and leaves one with the question as David Caddy puts it ‘Can the land afford a farm’ or ‘has the farm already been bought’." Litter reviews "Buying The Farm" by Elize O'toole, pub.@ShearsmanBooks : https://t.co/AlYmHgC8e8
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Double book launch for mentee Eliza O'Toole 💫 💫 and a place on the East Anglian Book Awards shortlist https://t.co/8sSSe3eQtL
@ShearsmanBooks @LakesideTheatre @muscalietpress @WritersCentre
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Excited to be in the latest magazine @ShearsmanBooks, with some very loose queer #Polari versions of #Catullus. My first published poems. Hope readers enjoy these trifles. #ClassicalReception
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Autumnal Equinox ...We spent summer propped up by each other's stuttering. There are seasons here if you squint. And there's relief in the landscape's sloughed off cusps of color fallen over the familiar landmarks... @jmasseypoet @ShearsmanBooks 🍂
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Publication day! A blog on my Selected Poems which is out today. @ShearsmanBooks @p_nikolaou
https://t.co/0l47xI7cjn
thepathsofsurvival.co.uk
Today sees the publication of Things We Leave Behind: Selected Poems, the culmination of twenty-one years’ work as a published poet (and more than forty as a classical translator). Edited by Pascha…
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Blushing thanks to @poemtoday and @conorpkelly for choosing and sharing these two poems yesterday, one from Medlars 🍑 @ShearsmanBooks, and one from the forthcoming Dream Island Home for Isabelle Huppert 🏝️ @VervePoetryPres
#PoemYesterday 🙏🙏 😳🙈😂🥰🤱👄💄💋🫦🪡👁️🐖🐖🙏🙏
@GBClarkson @poemtoday @VervePoetryPres You’re welcome. Two great (and very different poems). I wasn’t going to choose a beige bra. I debated whether to include Beige or Picture Poem which is a really nasty number, in the best sense of that unpoetic word. (Pigs, indeed.) Keep up the good work. 👍
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Honoured to be included on the @Saltire_Society #SaltireBookAwards #poetry longlist for #ExactColourOfSnow @ShearsmanBooks
https://t.co/8efNNYEYzD
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Some recent purchases of two great female Russian poets. From @ShearsmanBooks @SlantBooks @nyrbclassics and @BucknellU Press.
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This time last year I discovered Kenny Knight and read his previous with @ShearsmanBooks, warming to his candid realism and delightful imaginative tangents. The poetry here reflects even more on experiences of isolation, loss and constraint while escaping in glorious other worlds
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I like these tiny poems of the moon by Malcolm Ritchie from his beautiful new @ShearsmanBooks collection Mountain on Top of a Mountain
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Looking forward to reading from 'Things We Left Behind: Selected Poems' at the next @ShearsmanBooks event with Jennifer Morag Henderson & special guest Yang Lian. 7.30 pm. Tuesday 14th October, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1 https://t.co/Vuof6xG2EE
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Shearsman Books organises regular reading events for Shearsman authors, generally serving as a launch-pad for newly-published volumes.
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Thanks to Kelvin Corcoran for publishing four poems in the latest edition of @ShearsmanBooks magazine. Great to be alongside @LeafePress Peter Larkin, Aidan Semmens, Dorothy Lehane amongst others.
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Beautiful launch of Jodfrid Gunn @jennifer_morag @Waterstones Inverness! Spellbinding poems & fascinating conversation around this poetry-biography of a woman who came from Faroe Islands in 16th century to marry into the Clann Gunn in North of Scotland. https://t.co/3muP3P8z9V
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Eliza O'Toole-Buying the Farm The phrase to buy the farm' is a euphemism for death. Attested etymologically at least to WWII where, if someone had died, they had "bought the farm in the sky". The term to 'buy it means to die... Keep reading/order here: https://t.co/rB1Xdbx762
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We are very sad to hear of the passing of Shearsman poet, John Welch, so are sharing a poem we love from his 2024 collection, Returns. RIP John. 🖤
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Beautiful launch of Jodfrid Gunn @jennifer_morag @Waterstones Inverness! Spellbinding poems & fascinating conversation around this poetry-biography of a woman who came from Faroe Islands in 16th century to marry into the Clann Gunn in North of Scotland. https://t.co/3muP3P8z9V
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Eliza O'Toole-Buying the Farm The phrase to buy the farm' is a euphemism for death. Attested etymologically at least to WWII where, if someone had died, they had "bought the farm in the sky". The term to 'buy it means to die... Keep reading/order here: https://t.co/rB1Xdbx762
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We are very sad to hear of the passing of Shearsman poet, John Welch, so are sharing a poem we love from his 2024 collection, Returns. RIP John. 🖤
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