EBB presents a showcase of three Shearsman poets: Carrie Etter, Frances Presley and Andrew Duncan. Shearsman is a vital publisher of innovative poetries from the UK and beyond: we celebrate Etter's new chapbook *Veer, Oscillate, Rest*, with readings from two important figures of British poetry in the late modernist vein published extensively by Shearsman, Frances Presley and Andrew Duncan.

Bios:

Carrie Etter, originally from Normal, Illinois, resides in England since 2001. She has published five books of poetry, including *Divining for Starters* (Shearsman, 2011) and *Grief's Alphabet* (Seren, 2024). She edited *Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets** (Shearsman, 2010), Linda Lamus's posthumous A Crater the Size of Calcutta* (Mulfran, 2015), and Claire Crowther's *Sense and Nonsense: Essays and Interviews* (Shearsman, 2024). She also writes fiction, essays, and reviews, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol.

Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset, and lives in London. Her publications include Lines of Sight (Shearsman, 2009) which focused on Exmoor’s Neolithic stone sites, and a collaboration with visual poet Tilla Brading, Stone Settings (Odyssey, 2010). An Alphabet for Alina, with artist Peterjon Skelt, exploits the lexical and visual possibilities of an alphabet for girls (Five Seasons, 2012). Halse for hazel (Shearsman, 2014) explored marginal trees and languages, and continued in Sallow, (Leafe, 2016), with images by Irma Irsara. It received an Arts Council award. Ada Unseen (Shearsman, 2019) is about the life and work of Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer visionary, who lived on Exmoor, and was also a collaboration with visual poet Tilla Brading, ADADADA (Odyssey, 2022). Presley’s Collected Poems 1973–2020 were published in two volumes by Shearsman in 2022. Her latest project, Black Fens Viral began on a slow train through East Anglia’s flat, agricultural, landscape of black peat, once marshland.

Andrew Duncan has lived in Nottingham since 2005. He has been publishing poetry since the late ’70s, including Threads of Iron, Skeleton Looking at Chinese Pictures, Anxiety Before Entering a Room, The Imaginary in Geometry, Savage Survivals. On the Margins of Great Empires, selected poems, came out in 2017; at this point, he took up poetry again after a gap. Shearsman published Zerodrifter, translations from the poetry of Thomas Kling, in 2018. With Feathers on Glass, new poems, came out in 2023. B movie: serial of seven stars is expected from Equipage.

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