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Alireza Abiz is a multi-award-winning Iranian poet, literary scholar, and translator. He lives in London where he works as a creative writing teacher, translator and researcher.

To write these poems, I select a paragraph from a Woolf novel and only use the words from that paragraph to create a poem. I essentially write poems while doing a word search using Virginia Woolf as source material. (Nazifa Islam)

Break of Noon is a collaborative attempt, edited by Anthony Rudolf, at preparing an English-language edition of Paul Claudel's remarkable and complex play, an unstable text which gave Claudel many problems throughout his life.

Adam is a young man's book, but it represents a major advance for Huidobro. Written 1914-1916 and published July 1916, the work was rapidly left behind as he adopted more avant-garde forms, but it still repays one's attention today.

Pulsing with wit, bravado, vulgarity, pathos, whimsy, and replete with that rarest of pleasures in contemporary poetry: the pulse and surge of song, these poems ripple with a music that moves freely through the range of English lyric.

This handsome volume presents David Hadbawnik's radical version of the first half of Virgil's Roman national epic, with atmospheric illustrations from Carrie Kaser. This hardcover edition is released shortly before publication of Volume 2.

A late-life, late 1960s Celan straddles the perception and the hallucination that akin to Abraham he must choose between Poetry and his own son. The test is in the asking rather than what is being asked.

"Every poem is a dizzy word-dazzle, a dance of images, expressing a real life of work, babies, love and loss. [...] Some scatter the page and the mind, stretching poetry to its limits, and leave me wondering." -Gillian Clarke

Like a glazier reconstructing a mirror broken into a hundred shards, Eduardo Moga assembles a portrait of his father, thirty years after his death, from tiny sharp fragments of memory. This is no idealized patriarch...

Jonathan Griffin ably demonstrates in this volume that the shorter works of Camoens, mostly sonnets and redondilhas (roundels), are fine lyrics and ought to be given the same serious attention that the great epic receives as of right.

The Lusiads is Camoes' 16th-century masterpiece and to all intents and purposes his attempt at a Portuguese founding narrative along the lines of the Aeneid, dealing with the rise of Portugal as a maritime power.

Balkan Spaces locates, tracks and celebrates aspects of history, folk tradition, literary culture, educational practice, politics and poetry, while also including affectionate memoirs of many friends, most of them writers.

Tell Me No More and Tell Me, first published in 1981 focuses upon the poet's immediate surroundings, the Essex marshes and the small black timber framed cottage he lived in at the time.

In this poem-cycle, each bird was observed in its native habitat within the boundaries of the diocese and then linked back to the Sherborne missal through religious iconography, ... methods of illumination as well as bird mythology.

This book brings together three interconnected works from the 1970s, showcasing how three of the most significant figures in radical British poetry of the late 20th century responded to one another's work.

Alexandra Sashe is a poet whose work is filled with a kind of religious ecstasy, and whose work is influenced by the poetry of Paul Celan and, spiritually, by the mystical thinkers of the Eastern Church.

In these poems, written after the death of his parents, Amit Chaudhuri gives us both a record of loss and an account of tasting life afresh.

In these recent writings Heller deepens his exploration of poetry, articulating a sense of poetic language's inscription and trace, often with respect to aspects of Judaic thought and Buddhist influences.

Derek Gromadzki's Horology marks a significant advance from his first book, Pilgrimage Suites, which itself, more completely than most debuts, announced a poet already making his own sound.

Linda Black's sparkling poems charm and beguile ... Under a rubric of 'little involuntary musings', she makes a miscellany of different forms, all assembled into glittering bricolage.

In The Melancholy of Anatomy, his ninth collection of poetry, Martin Corless-Smith turns his attention towards ageing and mortality, and in particular to the death of his father.

With this issue, Shearsman magazine marks 40 years of publication. Original poetry from the the UK, Ireland, USA, Australia and India, plus translations from Hungarian, Latin, Spanish and Swedish.

In the summer of 2020, we invited 19 UK poets to partner with poets from around the world, to work collaboratively on poems responding to the virus. The poems are as personal as they are communal, and as local as they are international.

In the 1970s Tom Lowenstein spent a lot of time in an Alaskan Inuit village, studying the history, customs and life of the inhabitants. This book records the events and fascinations of those days.

Journey Around My Flat is a memoir that, in the manner of Perec, uses objects to trigger memories. Rudolf takes the reader on a guided tour of each room in the North London flat where he has lived for forty years.

This book tells of the voyage of the Mignonette in 1884, bound from England for Australia. After it foundered in the South Seas, the starving survivors murdered and ate the cabin boy. After being rescued, the survivors were tried in England.

Ruben Dario, the Nicaraguan poet and founder of the literary movement known as Modernismo - somewhat akin to French Symbolisme - died over a century ago, but his influence on Spanish-language poetry remains immense. Jorge Luis Borges declared: 'Dario was an innovator in everything ... We can truly call him the Liberator.'

These poems entwine round such matters as how roots move as they grow or how feet plant themselves, why a forest admits lanes and lines but obstructs them into shelter, how a tree might relate to all it isn't...

George Messo's fifth book of poems is a richly inventive, candid reflection on the individual nature of mental distress; a darkly playful, bold new collection from one of Shearsman's most reticent poets.

'Enraptured by the versioning bug,' Sheppard confesses of his variations of Petrarch 'I was off on one.' With comic verve, he refunctions some fine sonneteers: Petrarch, and those of The English Strain: Wyatt and Surrey.