#ShearsmanBooks

Carrie Etter

Dec 19, 2017
1 min

Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman Books, 2016), second selectio

More fine passages from this splendid collection: ...the sound of the first cicada now fitfully cutting the silence of dawn. Words wanted...

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Carrie Etter

Dec 17, 2017
1 min

Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman, 2016), first selection

I've been enjoying Elsa Cross's work for some years now, thanks to Anamaría Crowe Serrano and Shearsman Books. Here are some favourite...

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Carrie Etter

Dec 6, 2017
2 min

JL Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), second selection

A continuing selection of my favourite passages from JL Williams' third collection: Dark, this desire for space. The wasteland stained...

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Carrie Etter

Dec 4, 2017
2 min

JW Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), first selection

I liked Williams' first collection, Condition of Fire, and published two selections of passages on my old Blogspot blog. Indeed, she...

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Richard Georges' Make Us All Islands (Shearsman, 2017)

Carrie Etter

Jun 27, 2017
1 min

Richard Georges' Make Us All Islands (Shearsman, 2017)

I'm happy to say that this impressive debut has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. Here are some favourite...

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Scar reviewed in Poetry London and on Santa Fe public radio

Carrie Etter

Jun 19, 2017
1 min

Scar reviewed in Poetry London and on Santa Fe public radio

I'm surprised and delighted my chapbook, Scar, which came out a year ago this month, is still going strong, with a new review in Poetry...

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Carrie Etter

Mar 14, 2017
2 min

What Can Political Poetry Do?

After years of attending AWP (the Associated Writing Programs' annual conference--Brits, imagine 11,000 writers in one U.S. city for...

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Carrie Etter

Feb 15, 2017
1 min

And when you think all the words that will be said about it have been said....

Helena Nelson has reviewed Scar for Sphinx here (and I'm ecstatic).... #HelenaNelson #Sphinx #chapbook #Scar #ShearsmanBooks

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Carrie Etter

Feb 6, 2017
1 min

Another rave review of Scar

Katy Lewis Hood, a postgraduate student interested in women's contemporary poetry and the anthropocene (as I learned from her blog),...

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Carrie Etter

Jan 18, 2017
1 min

Scar reviewed in PN Review

In a round-up of six chapbooks in the latest PN Review, Alison Brackenbury gives Scar an absolutely superlative review, and I'm thrilled....

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Carrie Etter

Jan 16, 2017
2 min

The poet waits

It seems that much of my life as a poet has involved waiting. First it's waiting for responses to submissions to magazines (and many US...

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Carrie Etter

Jan 5, 2017
1 min

A new year

The excitement of 2016 for my writing largely consisted of the publication of two pamphlets: Hometown (V. Press), a collection of flash...

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Em Strang's Bird-Woman (Shearsman, 2016)

Carrie Etter

Oct 6, 2016
1 min

Em Strang's Bird-Woman (Shearsman, 2016)

Here are some of my favourite passages from this impressive debut collection by Scottish poet Em Strang: The sunlight is squeezing her,...

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Carrie Etter

Sep 15, 2016
1 min

Touring Scar

Until last year, I rarely wrote a poem over a page long. Now, my current manuscript, The Weather in Normal, has four poems of 3+ pages,...

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Carrie Etter

Sep 9, 2016
1 min

Poetry and Pottery: A Collaboration

Almost as long as potter Trevor Lillistone has been my partner, people have asked us whether we've collaborated. That answer was no until...

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