'The strength of these poems is their clarity & surety...The poems are also deeply aware that all we have to think with is language & the book captures both the slipperiness & beauty of language'—Martha Ronk

Jon Thompson's The Distances is now available!

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'Anyone who's lived any time in Chetumal
Will understand the circumstances of my death.'

Luis Miguel Aguilar's Selected Poems, translated by Kathleen Snodgrass.

“Aguilar’s poetry is unlike any other from Mexico in recent decades.'—José Joaquín Blanco

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'Anyone who's lived any time in Chetumal
Will understand the circumstances of my death.'

Luis Miguel Aguilar's Selected Poems, translated by Kathleen Snodgrass.

“Aguilar’s poetry is unlike any other from Mexico in recent decades.'—José Joaquín Blanco

shearsman.com/store/Luis-Mig…

'Paterson is adept at haiku, and the haiku-writer’s skills of concision, precision and evocation are evident throughout the book.' — Annie Fisher reviews 'Words of Mercury' by Alasdair Paterson (Shearsman Books, 2024). buff.ly/3xXvWio #TheFridayPoem Shearsman

If you are in Edinburgh or the surrounding area, don't miss this launch of Aonghas MacNeacail's beyond, edited by Colin Bramwell & Gerda Stevenson!

It is a Golden Hare Books event, but at nearby St. Vincent's Chapel at 6.30pm, Thursday 2nd May.

Book here:

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If you are in Edinburgh or the surrounding area, don't miss this launch of Aonghas MacNeacail's beyond, edited by Colin Bramwell & Gerda Stevenson!

It is a Golden Hare Books event, but at nearby St. Vincent's Chapel at 6.30pm, Thursday 2nd May.

Book here:

goldenharebooks.com/collections/ev…

So good to see Shearsman for a catch up. And enjoying these reads from Isobar Press Bad Betty Press Hercules Editions Peepal Tree Press Broken Sleep Books BrookesPoetryCentre . My purse is empty but mind full.

This brilliant event is next week - join us! Tickets available at goldenharebooks.com, or visit us in our Stockbridge shop. Colin Bramwell Gerda Stevenson Shearsman

'You can almost see the twinkle in Alasdair Paterson’s eye as you read these poems – the twinkle of wit, of mischief &, just occasionally, the twinkle of a tear.' — Annie Fisher reviews 'Words of Mercury' by Alasdair Paterson buff.ly/3xXvWio #TheFridayPoem Shearsman

2/2 'It's not fair for the sea to be so off-handedly blue' Jon Thompson, The Distances (Shearsman ), available here: shearsman.com/store/Jon-Thom…

Three quotes from Jon Thompson's new collection, The Distances (Shearsman): 'my name seems / even strange to me / like something I've borrowed and have to give back'; 'we fill these places / with our dead and give their birth a beauty / we can't bear to give the living' 1/2

Good to visit the #poetry #bookfair after so many years (thanks Ali Lewis & The Poetry Society et al). Spent far too much. Caught up with old friends, poets and publishers alike - Renard Press Carcanet Press Mica Press & Campanula Books Shearsman Hercules Editions
Fine readings at the after-party too

A queering of the Song of Songs, Jesus rendered as ‘yesyou’. Lovely, tender, revelatory collection by Sarah Cave 🦎 🕊️

My 'Letters from Latin America' in Morning Star Magic realism by Itamar Vieira Junior Verso Books, nonfiction by Gabriela Wiener Gabriela Wiener Pushkin Press, and poetry by Huidobro Shearsman and Zapotec poet Víctor Terán Poetry Translation Centre morningstaronline.co.uk/article/letter…

Day 17 of National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books with a new poem by Pete Smith, / BC BookLook Shearsman League of Canadian Poets ;
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Day 17 of National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books with a new poem by Pete Smith, / poetry in canada Shearsman Poets & Writers Poetry Foundation ;
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Please join us, Shearsman, Colin Bramwell and Gerda Stevenson to launch beyond at St Vincent's Chapel on 2nd May. Tickets and copies of the book available now in the bookshop and at goldenharebooks.com

As moving, brilliant and inventive on the page as it was in Sarah Cave’s ⁦Sarah Cave 🦎⁩ wonderful launch performance last week. The Book of Yona is haunting, lyrical, tender and erotic - and unmissable. Out now from ⁦Shearsman⁩

Edinburgh folk, you can now book tickets for the Aonghas MacNeacail beyond launch event w/Colin Bramwell & Gerda Stevenson, Thursday 2nd May, 6.30pm Golden Hare Books. This event will take place at St Vincent's Chapel, St Vincent Street, EH3 SW. See you there! goldenharebooks.com/collections/ev…

“Indelible & deeply resonant, Linda Black’s Interior demonstrates a poet at the peak of their powers. ...Black explores the intersections of writing, desire & creativity in marvellously fragmented & Frankensteinian ways.'─Cassandra Atherton

Out now!

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