Forgetfulness, now available to preorder from @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social here: www.shearsman.com/store/Ian-Se...

For Addiction Awareness Week, Jeremy Hooker’s poignant masterpiece chronicling efforts to combat the alcoholism that contributed to the death of his wife Mieke, based largely on his journals over a 10 year period from 1997 - 2007. A tough but beautiful read. Published by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social

Editor, publisher and translator Tony Frazer founded Shearsman magazine in 1981, shortly followed by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, with more than 900 poetry & poetry-related publications now in print. Browse and buy their new & recent titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October

Eliza O’Toole – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍

On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
“99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous reading—law, botany, philosophy, etymologies—all percolating into poetry.”

🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

Review time, with two Shearsman titles:
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This time last year I discovered Kenny Knight and read his previous with @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, 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

And those of you outside the UK will be able to order the humongous Sobin Collected Poems from the Usual Suspects amongst the online retailers. If you're in the US do NOT order from us in the UK as postage will be about $50: got to Indiebound, Barnes & Noble online, or, yes, Amazon.

And now for a new book. Just out here, although we don't actually have physical copies yet, is Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems, all 738-pages, in both paperback and hardcover editions. In the UK we can supply from stock (once we have some, which will be next week.)
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...

and while we're talking about prices, Petra White has been shortlisted for the Poetry Prize in the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards.... Prizes are given out next week.

and J.R. Carpenter on her collection—

Carol Watts on her collection—

Eliza O'Toole on her collection—

We've just arrived on BlueSky. First up we'd like to tell you that we have three titles shortlisted in the Laurel Prizes for 2025. The Prize is being awarded 2 days from now but for now we're going to introduce you to the three books. See next posts.