Shearsman magazine has been running in a pamphlet-sized format for 15 years, and this double-issue marks a move into perfect-bound paperback format. Frequency moves from quarterly to half-yearly at thr same time. Issue 63/64 includes work by Frances Presley, Lisa Samuels, Sarah Law, Robert Saxton, John Seed, Gad Hollander, Sam Sampson, Philip Jenkins, Spencer Selby, Gordon Kennedy, Rupert M. Loydell, Giles Goodland, Gaston Baquero (translated by Mark Weiss), Alberto Blanco (translated by Joan Lindgren), plus translations from the German by Christopher MIddleton, Harry Guest and Tony Frazer.

The second issue of the Shearsman journal for 2006, featuring poetry by Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Richard Burns, Kelvin Corcoran, M.T.C. Cronin, Mark Goodwin, Anthony Hawley, Matthew Jarvis, rob mclennan, Valeria Melchioretto, Mary Michaels, Ermn Moure, John Phillips, Elizabeth Robinson, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Squires, Sasha Steenson & Janet Sutherland; an essay on Roy Fisher by Peter Makin, & translations of Mexican poet Pura Lspez-Colomi by Jason Stumpf.

The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2007, featuring poetry from: Susana Arajo, Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Andy Brown, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Patricia Farrell, Fergal Gaynor, Mark Goodwin, Catherine Hales, Ralph Hawkins, Luisa A. Igloria, David Kennedy, philip kuhn, Rachel Lehrman, Tony Lopez, Rupert M. Loydell, Jill Magi, Sophie Mayer, George Messo, Mary Michaels, Robert Saxton, Janet Sutherland; and translations of Romina Freschi (by herself), Anna Glazova (by Anna Khasin), Gottfried Benn & Anna Hoffmann (by Catherine Hales), David Huerta (by Mark Schafer) and, from...

Alexander Barclay, Richard Carew, Humfrey Gifford, Anne Dowriche, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, Joseph Hall, John Ford, Robert Herrick, Sidney Godolphin, William Strode, William Browne, Mary, Lady Chudleigh, John Gay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. All of these are poets born in the two westernmost counties of England, or - like Hall and Herrick - poets who were active there. In time we stretch from the very beginning of the 16th century until the early 19th century. We begin with Barclay, a priest at Ottery St. Mary, and we close with Coleridge, the son of a priest at Ottery St. Mary, his...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain experienced a literary Renaissance akin to that in England, with great poets, dramatists and novelists establishing new forms and blazing new trails: Garcilaso de la Vega, Gongora, Quevedo amongst the poets, Lope de Vega & Calderon de la Barca amongst the dramatists (although both were also poets), Cervantes - of course - amongst the prose writers. The Renaissance in England was also a time when translations of contemporary European literature became more common, beginning with contemporary Italian works, and the importation of the Petrarchan sonnet, and...

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2008 contains new poetry by Susan Connolly, Peter Dent, Ray DiPalma, Anne Gorrick, David Greenslade, Harry Guest, Lee Harwood, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Tom Lowenstein, D.S. Marriott, Alasdair Paterson, Julie Sampson, Nathan Shepherdson, Robert Sheppard, C.K. Stead, Janet Sutherland, Nathaniel Tarn, Mark Terrill, Carolyn van Langenberg and Robert Vas Dias; there are also translations of Elsa Cross and David Huerta by John Oliver Simon, of Dieter Grf by Andrew Shields and of Leticia Luna by Toshiya Kamei.

Includes poetry by authors from many parts of the world, English work, and work in translation, from Dutch, Spanish, Finnish & Turkish.

This second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2009 includes work by Isobel Armstrong, Linda Black, Chris Brownsword, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Mark Dickinson, Ray DiPalma, Sally Flint, Damian Furniss, Mark Goodwin, David H W Grubb, Lucy Hamilton, Lee Harwood, Sarah Hopkins, Kenny Knight, Mary Leader, Richard Makin, Deborah Meadows, Christopher Middleton, Elizabeth Treadwell, George Ttoouli and JL Williams; and translations: of Elsa Cross by Michael Smith & Luis Ingelmo, of Gunter Eich by Siriol Troup, of Niels Hav by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen, and of Elsa Morante by Cristina Viti.

William Strode, born in Plympton, Devon, in the early years of the 17th century, is a little-known poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, but he was a fine lyric poet and little deserves his oblivion. Hitherto the only publication of his work was by Bertram Dobell in 1907, since which time he has often been anthologised but never again granted a volume of his own. This volume redresses the balance.

The first double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2010. It contains poetry by Kate Ashton, Paul Batchelor, James Bell, James Berger, Richard Berengarten, Peter Boyle, Marianne Burton, Susan Connolly, Martyn Crucefix, Carrie Etter, Janice Fixter, Kit Fryatt, Monica Gomery, Ralph Hawkins, Rachel Lehrman, Rachel McCarthy, Valeria Melchioretto, Nathan Shepherdson, Tupa Snyder, Craig Watson, and Tamar Yoseloff. In addition there is an essay by Douglas Messerli, plus translations of poetry by Swantje Lichtenstein (by Kevin Perryman), of Gertrud Kolmar (by phlip kuhn & ruth von zimmermann), of Jorge...