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Locust and Marlin considers how, in lives bright and brief as a candle's burn, we tell our stories and locate the places where we live and love. Where is the origin, our point in space from which we view the world? How much control do we have over who we are and what impact we have on the territory we inhabit?

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 Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting the frozen rivers of Siberia - Alasdair Paterson plots a course at the cruising speed of the flaneur through the ruins of empires and dreams.

"Sceptical as I am about anti-poetry, of which there is a lot around and which can assume many different forms, the fully formed poems are not the only writing I can value in a book like this. There is too much wit, absurdity, and sheer verbal craft to be ignored." - Peter Riley

Maureen Thorson's second book of poetry follows a couple as they put their separate histories behind them and create a new life together.Fragments of overheard dialogue, close observations of the changing seasons, and a wry sense of humor blend to narrate the transformation of doubts into certainties, as past heartbreak is set aside.

The Dustbowl is a collection of serial poems that intertwine Arthurian legend and Dust Bowl lore with fragmented memories of a childhood in California. The book's polyphonic voices conjoin perpetually questing knights and those journeying west into a single body.

The second part to be published from Silliman's huge new work-in-progress, Universe,Northern Soul is a book-length poem of observation and reminiscence, a kaleidoscope of impressions occasioned by visits to the north-west of England, home to the music scene of the title.

The House of Straw is Carmen Bugan's second collection, and follows her well-received memoir of life under the Ceaucescu regime in Romania, Burying the Typewriter.

On Narrowness is Claire Crowther's third collection. Her previous collections attracted wide attention; the first was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh first collection prize. She is poet-in-residence at the Royal Mint Museum for 2014-15 and lives in Somerset with her husband, physicist Keith Barnham.

This book offers a critical overview of the work of the British poet Kelvin Corcoran who, over nearly 30 years, has established a reputation as one of the most significant innovative British lyric poets; 'a giant of the middle generation' as Andrew Duncan has described him.

The first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the present day, this is a highly courageous and cutting edge poet's autobiography, explicit and detailed in a way few poets would dare.

In 1993, the term Performance Writing suggested simply writing for performance. By 2011, when the author became the first Professor of Performance Writing, it had attained a wider currency in discussions of contemporary writing, and had entered the curriculum well beyond its intense first development at the adventurous Dartington College of Arts.

Walter Benjamin called translation "The Third Language", because a translation is something unique, something set apart, just as bronze forged from copper and tin overcomes the brittleness of copper and the softness of tin to become both hard and pliable, almost becoming a new element. Here, poets from two different languages translate each other.

Two poem-sequences: Pigeons, and Pussy. A short poem on every page, 3 or 4 lines. The sequences presented on facing pages, emphasising the fact that the title word could be subtitled by the other if one wished. At various times hilarious, scurrilous, and thought-provoking, this collection is one of the most unusual you will come across.

The second issue of Shearsman for 2013 contains poetry by Theodoros Chiotis and Sophie Mayer, Patricia Debney, Carrie Etter, Charlotte Faber, Kim Goldberg, Graham Hardie, Michael Haslam, Ralph Hawkins, Jeremy Hooker, Alex Houen, Peter Hughes, John James, Maria Jastrzebska, Kelly Malone, Marion McCready, Maureen McLane, George Messo and more.

Tessitura, Italian 'texture', borrows a musical conceptual term, denoting the textural sweep of melodic contour - kind of safe-space - for a singer or instrumentalist. This collection is intended as an corresponding writerly-space in which I bring together various drifts of work, assemble them into poetry's visual equivalence of music's soundscape.

These book presents two long poem-sequences by one of Argentina's major living poets.

In Unbelievers, John Mateer seeks out evidence of the importance of the Islamic and Arabic history in places as diverse as Dubai, Seville, Cairo and the Portuguese village of Monsanto. He is not only interested in the past but in the deep present, its poetics.

1st Sergeant Arthur "Bud" Locke was based at Clark Field in the Philippines, as part of the USAAF's Far East Air Service Command, in 1941. He was taken prisoner with many others in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, experienced the Bataan Death March, and was transported to a POW work-camp in Kobe, from which he was liberated in 1945.

Archilochus, Greece's first lyric poet, took part in the earliest colonial expeditions. Perril's Archilochus has been sent into exile to colonise the moon, that curator of lost objects and desires. This collection voices the ageing poet's dissection of hope and desire, and his meditation upon the body that barely houses them.

Anthony Mellors' first collection in some years brings together a number of sequences, including the remarkable 'bent out of shape' and 'The Gordon Brown Sonnets', the latter extensively and puckishly annotated.

Sean Burn's third full-length poetry collection ranges across art and sculpture, a Tuvan singer, man's impact on the Lake District, the disgrace of water privatisation, dance, America and Europe, and finishes with the title poem which is an intense transgender love story.

Thin Ice takes the reader on an odyssey of the imagination, with poems whose sources range from a childhood in Maine, to NYC of the Vietnam era, to our paranoid post-9/11 world. There is a measure of relief in the quotidian pleasures of our beleaguered natural environment, whether from a terrace on a Greek island, or the poet's garden in Cornwall.

The Sun-Artist is a collection of "pattern poems" by a poet who has been experimenting with visual texts - often with a uniquely Irish "subject matter" - for several years. Her last Shearsman collection, Forest Music, featured a number of such works, but this chapbook is entirely visual.

Anibal Nunez has been described as the best Spanish poet of his generation, sometimes called the generation of '68. His recognition has been a long time coming, no doubt due to the fact that he stood outside the accepted currents of his time. Poet, painter, essayist and translator, he died young, but left behind a very large body of work.

The Lower Reaches is framed within precise geography, the Lower Hope region of the Thames estuary where the author was born and grew up beside a river on which "the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empire" floated.