Poetry by Individual Poets

Carmen Bugan is the author of the collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, the memoir Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the ...

Be My Reader is a trove of texts made and found by Finlay over the past two decades, touching on philosophy, landscape, dance, football, travel and...

A year after her young son's diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, Patricia Debney spent six weeks writing in a beach hut on the North Kent coast. From the...

Steve Spence's new collection of poetry - his second from Shearsman Books - is a continuation of the mapping of contemporary cultural and polit...

Faulty Mothering is based on my work with families but focusing on mothers in particular who are experiencing problems in attachment to their child...

On Narrowness is Claire Crowther's third collection. Her previous collections attracted wide attention; the first was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh...

In this collection, her second volume from Shearsman, Anne Blonstein continues to explore the possibilities of novel poetic forms. These poems have...

The Ring is a book-length sequence of poems where the protagonist, a new young widow, moves from the strangeness of city to city, (from Copenhagen ...

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 Coa...

Ovid wrote his famous stories of change just before being banished from the Roman home that he loved, and after travelling throughout Italy, observ...

In the final year of my 40s I shall abdicate responsibility for all my poems say, do, or be so they might get a life away from me. Join Simon Per...

Winner of the 2013 Wales Book of the Year, the People's Choice Award and the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry.Shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Prize...

With this fine collection Gardner's work achieves what one poem describes as 'beauty itself / taut against the half-life rendering.' Human experien...