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The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2014 includes new poetry by Peter Boyle, M.T.C. Cronin, Ray DiPalma, Tim Dooley, Michael Farrell, Mark Goodwin, Anne Gorrick, Jeremy Hooker, Norman Jope, Kent MacCarter, Alasdair Paterson, Peter Robinson, Nathan Shepherdson, Scott Thurston, Cristina Viti, Heidi Williamson and several others.

'A Ritual Landscape' sets out Aidan Semmens' stall from the start of this, his third full-length collection. These are poems that 'have legs'-that continue the journey outward begun in A Stone Dog and The Book of Isaac, and elaborate the argument and project of one of our most ambitious and accomplished poets. What runs through this book, like Brighton rock, is a traditional, yet questioning, and taut lyricism, a poetry of argument in the voice of smouldering outrage. The voice of these poems inhabits the place of post-industrial landscape in a way not as effectively revisited and examined since the poetry of Roy Fisher in, 'a place of gathering /an enclosure of power and spirit, ' in a 'slow recovery of knowledge'

Obsequy For Lost Things consists of three prose-poetry sequences. The first two share the setting of the Thames estuary. They all share, however, like the author's previous collection of prose-poetry sequences (from Skylight Press) Interlocutors of Paradise, a concern with history and the psychology of colonialism.

Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically Helen's supposed deceit and infidelity.

Different Kinds of Music follows Timothy "Westy" Westmont through six episodes from his childhood and youth, through his experiences as an archivist and a thief, to encounters with William Faulkner's bear in St. Louis, Hemingway's lingering ghost at Walloon Lake in Michigan, and Phillip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus in Columbus, Ohio itself.

In Sea Table Kelvin Corcoran brings it all back home. Not that it was ever very far away, but he has been writing a lot of poetry concerning Greece. Greece, both place and stories, was a lens onto our present condition and its depths, and through that focus he developed an essentially lyrical field as the basis for a move towards larger forms.

This is the Libretto to Nicola LeFanu's opera, Tokaido Road. In 1832 the young Hiroshige sets out on Japan's great Eastern Sea Road, the Tokaido, linking Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The paintings he creates along the way reveal the secrets of a hidden country.

Martyn Crucefix's new poems vividly evoke the landscapes of northern England and - in a sequence of sonnets inspired by the writing of Rosalia de Castro - the north west of Spain. But more than place, they explore the ways in which we inhabit time - how we are harmed and healed by it, how we deny, ignore, sublimate, repeat or reprise it.

Arrivals & Departures is a slim collection of poems by Robert vas Dias, a follow-up to his full-length Shearsman collection, Still * Life and Other Poems of Art and Artifice.

This exciting and readable book presents the fifties and sixties as a crucible of new departures, asking what remains and continues from those decades into the cultural present. It takes the form of a series of thematic essays each of which discusses the work of an individual or group of novelists.

This slim collection gathers together John Seed's poems written since the publication of his New and Collected.

The figure of ra-t slithers through these pages like the Zelig of London Town - an ocular witness at every juncture of its history. His split name makes him a fractured and contradictory creature. Always recognisable he is also hesitant and obscure, not unlike this text which at every turn employs discontinuity and slippage as formal strategies.

Helena Eriksson is a Swedish poet. strata was her sixth volume of poetry, an enigmatic book-length work, published in 2004.

Claus von Rosen was born into the German-speaking landed nobility of the Baltic countries, then part of the Russian Empire. [...] With the arrival of World War 2, and the Soviet invasion of Estonia, he was drafted into the German army, serving on the Eastern front. There, he was captured and imprisoned in the Gulag until being freed in 1955.

This is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the work of Trevor Joyce, one of the Ireland's most innovative poets of the past 50 years. Contributions from: Lucy Collins, Eric Falci, Fergal Gaynor, John Goodby, Fanny Howe, David Lloyd, Peter Manson, Niamh O'Mahony, Marthine Satris, Geoffrey Squires, Keith Tuma and Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas.

This is Michael Smith's first collection since his Collected Poems of 2009, and is an elegiac volume. As the author says: "Let me try to define prayer as I am using it here. It is a voice in the head, ours and not ours. It speaks in words we scarcely understand. Unstoppable, unless distracted by our quotidian pursuits."

Comprising work from the early 1970s onwards, Reassembling Still is by far the largest and most comprehensive collection of David Miller's poetry, and includes all of his poetry that he wishes to keep, with the exceptions of the ongoing Spiritual Letters project and his visual poems.

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2014, and a big anniversary, as the magazine's second series reaches the 100th issue. Originally appearing as a quarterly, the magazine converted to bi-annual publication in a larger format, but retained the previous numbering system, necessitating a shift to double numbers.

Openings is a sequel to Jeremy Hooker's earlier Welsh Journal and Upstate: A North American Journal, permitting us a peak over the shoulder of a fine English poet at work, and on the move.

These are poems concerned with the living presence of place - and with what is written over it by maps and history, whether in the crash site of a military aircraft in Argyll, in the personal histories of an elegy or in the eroded landscapes of the Scottish hills. Here the living move through time and weather.

The poems in this extraordinary full-length collection by Alice Miller ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They are curious, restless, bold; they marry lyrical music and intricate metaphor as they search for other human voices beyond the rumblings of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of myth.