OUR LATEST BOOK RELEASES
Welcome to the Shearsman Books website. Shearsman is a very active small press based in Oxfordshire, England, publishing mainly poetry. We publish around 50 books and two issues of Shearsman magazine every year. The list of authors is completely international, although there are of course more British authors than those from elsewhere. We have a very strong translation list, with a particular emphasis on Hispanic poetry — whether from Latin America or the Peninsula — but we also have fascinating books from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Turkey, and elsewhere. Use the menu bar at the top of the page to get around, and explore the shop (far left in the menu bar), where you can find all of our titles that are in print.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
FEATURED AUTHORS
JR CARPENTER
JR Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds. Their work asks questions about place, displacement, climate, and colonialism, across performance, print, and digital media. Measures of Weather was The Observer’s poetry book of the month, February 2025. JR's website is at https://luckysoap.com
Measures of Weather (2025) is JR's first collection with Shearsman Books, and is shortlisted for the 2025 Laurel Prize
ELIZA O'TOOLE
Eliza O’Toole’s poems have appeared in Shearsman magazine, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence, and Poetry Review. She published The Dropping of Petals (Muscaliet Press, 2021), A Cranic of Ordinaries (Shearsman, 2024) and Buying the Farm (Shearsman, 2025). She was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 for her pamphlet The Unpinning of Moths.
A Cranic of Ordinaries, her first Shearsman collection, is shortlisted for the 2025 Laurel Prize.
CAROL WATTS
Carol Watts is a poet who lives in south-east London. Her twelve collections and chapbooks include Mimic Pond, Kelptown and When Blue Light Falls (Shearsman Books), Occasionals and Wrack (Reality Street), Fifty-Six with George Szirtes (Arc), Sundog (Veer), and Dockfield (Equipage). She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex.