This is the second double-issue in Shearsman's new format and contains the usual wide range of original work and translations. Among those featured in this edition are: Louis Armand, Maurice Scully, Rochelle Ratner, Elizabeth Treadwell

The first of Shearsman's double issues for 2006, no. 67/68 features new poetry by (amongst others) Anne Blonstein, Tilla Brading, Richard Burns, Claire Crowther, Devin Johnston, Peter Makin, Deborah Meadows, Christopher Middleton, Gregory O'Brien, Peter Robinson, Robert Saxton, Robert Sheppard, Zok Skoulding & Carolyn van Langenberg, together with translations from the French, German, Romanian and classical Chinese.

The first Shearsman double-issue for 2007, number 71 & 72, features new poetry by C.J. Allen, James Bell, Richard Deming, Tamara Fulcher, Becky Gould Gibson, Lucy Hamilton, Peter Hughes, Maryrose Larkin, Simon Marsh, Chris McCabe, Kate Schmitt, Aidan Semmens, Tupa Snyder & Nathan Thompson; prose by Dennis Barone & translations of Chus Pato by Erin Moure, Pierre Reverdy by Ian Seed, Krisztina Toth by Kevin Nolan & Sara Uribe by Toshiya Kamei.

Pessoa wrote a large number of poems in English, some of them in the guise of early heteronyms (such as Alexander Search and Charles Robert Anon) which prove to be fascinating precursors of the later, modernist work in Portuguese. While not the equal of the masterly Caeiro, Campos, Reis or Pessoa-himself, these poems deserve to be better known and at least available in the English-speaking world. Pessoa was educated in English in Durban, as the stepson of a Portuguese diplomat, and was completely bilingual. He translated several books from English for Portuguese publishing houses. The...

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) was perhaps the greatest poet to have worked in Devon. Born in London, the son of a goldsmith, he studied at Cambridge and later fell in with the London poets who had gathered around the magnetic figure of Ben Jonson. In order to make a living - since he had not pursued the family trade - he entered the Church and in 1627 was appointed chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham, whom he accompanied on an unsuccessful military expedition in 1627. In 1629 he was appointed to the living of Dean Prior, a village on the edge of Dartmoor, about half way between Exeter and...

Presents a range of poetry - English-language work and work in translation from Turkish, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2010. The issue contains new work by Linda Black, Melissa Buckheit, Claire Crowther, Michael Farrell, Clive Faust, Angela Gardner, Giles Goodland, Mark Goodwin, Lucy Hamilton, Peter Larkin, Mary Leader, Tom Lowenstein, Christopher Middleton, Richard Owens, Frances Presley, Carlyle Reedy, Peter Riley, Ian Seed, ZoA Skouldin, g Janet Sutherland and Astrid van Baalen. Also translations of Tadeusz Dabrowski (by Antonia Lloyd-Jones), Osip Mandelstam (by Alistair Noon), Gonca A-zmen (by George Messo) and a selection of 4 Austrian Poets (by Donald...

This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes with two full-length interviews, conducted by Peter Robinson and John Kerrigan. Essential to an understanding of Roy Fisher's work as a poet.

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015 includes original original poetry from the UK and the USA, plus translations of poetry from Spain, the Netherlands, Argentina, France, and Ancient Rome.