A Festschrift for Tony Frazer

The poets' champion

Tony Frazer is one of the great poetry editors of our time. This website is a tribute to him on his 64th birthday. It contains more than 200 contributions from poets whose writing he has published since 1981 under his imprints Shearsman Books and Shearsman Magazine, as well as from friends and well-wishers. Together, these present a unique collective tribute not only to Tony’s achievement as the publisher of more than 300 writers, but as a friend, as a man. In its variety and richness, this unusual anthology bears witness to the far-sightedness, adventurousness, eclecticism and dedication of Tony’s vision for poetry and his tireless pursuit of the new, the original and the excellent.

Tony Frazer must be held to account for he is a publisher who resolutely fails to be everything a publisher should be: he is enthusiastic,
literate and does not concern himself with projected sales figures. What can be done to stop him? Very little, I fear – Marius Kociejowski

Editors: Richard Berengarten, Martin Anderson, Kelvin Corcoran, Lucy Hamilton, Aidan Semmens, Lynda Waters
Website design & production: Aidan Semmens