Ian Seed‘s full-length collections of poetry and prose poetry include Night Window (Shearsman, 2024), The Underground Cabaret (Shearsman, 2020), Operations of Water (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, 2020), and New York Hotel (Shearsman 2018), which was nominated by Mark Ford as a TLS Book of the Year.
His most recent chapbook is My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with artwork by Lupo Sol (Sacred Parasite Press, 2025).
Ian’s new collection, Forgetfulness, is forthcoming from Shearsman in early 2026.
Translations include: The Dice Cup (Wakefield Press, US, 2023), from the French of Max Jacob, The River Which Sleep Has Told Me (Fortnightly Review Odd Volumes, 2022), from the Italian of Ivano Fermini, and Bitter Grass (Shearsman, 2016), from the Italian of Gëzim Hajdari.
According to John Ashbery, writing in 2011, ‘the mystery and sadness of empty rooms, chance encounters in the street, trains traveling through a landscape of snow become magical in Ian Seed’s poems.’ More information available at www.ianseed.co.uk
Claire Crowther has published six collections of poetry, including her current collection Real Lear, New & Selected Poems, and one collection of essays and interviews, all with Shearsman. Stretch of Closures was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection and Solar Cruise was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems have appeared in Bad Lilies, Fortnightly Review, Obsessed with Pipework, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, The North, TLS, and many other publications. She teaches on Oxford University’s Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing and is Poet in Residence at Frome Museum for 2025. She is Deputy / Reviews Editor of Long Poem Magazine. Her work has been recorded for the Poetry Archive. Luke Kennard has said of her work: ‘For me, [Claire Crowther’s] work sits with the Modernists in its uncompromising ambition, commitment to experiment and dignity of focus, but her voice is consistently contemporary, poised and original.’