James Sheard: 2 books
by James Sheard
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize
PBS Autumn Recommendation
The poems in James Sheard’s remarkable third book are about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting – of the people involved and the places where they lived – an emotional trace of...
by James Sheard
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Dammtor is the old city gate and now the centre of ground transport for the great port of Hamburg. In James Sheard's second collection it is a 'station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light' - a hub for the damaged and deracinated. These precise, wounded poems draw the...