{"title":"Shearsman Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780907562603","title":"Maldon, and Other Translations","description":"Irish poet, translator and editor Michael Smith is based in Dublin and this volume collects a number of his more unusual translations - The Battle of Maldon, from the Anglo-Saxon, two long poems from the 18th-century Irish, and a large selection of cantes flamencos (flamenco songs). The book will fill out the view of Smith's work in Britain, where he is better known as a translator of Spanish baroque poetry. He founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967, an enterprise which was responsible for the publication of a number of neglected Irish poets, as well as several important younger writers. 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She has read at international literature festivals and venues in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Turkey, Cyprus, Canada, Hungary, Romania, Montenegro and the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wrote the libretto for the opera \u003cem\u003eSnow\u003c\/em\u003e which debuted in London in 2017, was awarded a bursary to develop a new opera with composer Samantha Fernando at the Royal Opera House and was a librettist for the award-winning 2020 covid-response \u003cem\u003eEpisodes\u003c\/em\u003e project by The Opera Story. Williams curates writing events and creates workshops and professional development activities for poets. She is hopeful about the simple and mysterious power of poetry that allows us to know ourselves, each other and the world more deeply. www.jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'If Burns's collection is like the soothing chatter of grownups, the voices in JL Williams's \u003cem\u003eAfter Economy\u003c\/em\u003e are more akin to the half-heard voices of dreams - compelling, disorientating, moreish - leaving you, on waking, wondering what just happened...' -Penny Boxall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The fifty-six poems of \u003cem\u003eAfter Economy\u003c\/em\u003e balance on a wavering tightrope between oblivion, void and humanity. An intriguing unpredictability fills Williams' poems, as they unfold into sensitive, beautiful musings: \"this poem may die some evening in a garden by the sea\". A hallucinatory-feel transcends the confines of familiarity as \"I was close enough \/ to hear colour, to see sound\". Enigmatic and thought-provoking poems.' -\u003cem\u003ePoetry Book Society Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e, Summer Selections 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eAfter Economy\u003c\/em\u003e is spellbinding and profound.' -Jane McKie\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308406845813,"sku":"9781848618053","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848618053_0ab5cb2b-cad6-42d7-ab97-55642af7ec62.jpg?v=1786029124"},{"product_id":"9781848618237","title":"A Cloud of Witnesses","description":"\u003cp\u003eKjell Espmark (b.1930) was Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University from 1978 to 1995 and has been a member of The Swedish Academy since 1981, serving as Chairman of The Nobel Committee from 1988 to 2004. 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Another consistent feature of his poetry, and one which we can see extending over six decades, is the coherence we find within each volume, echoes and cross-references linking poems not only within a single collection but from book to book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308407501173,"sku":"9781848618237","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848618237_f5508fdd-628d-4338-be38-65c537ebf2c8.jpg?v=1786029124"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/publisher-shearsman-books.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}