The first double-issue of Shearsman for 2009 includes poetry by Michael Ayres, K.C. Clapham, Kelvin Corcoran, Sarah-Anne Cox, Jen Crawford, Catherine Hales, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Norman Jope, Helen Lopez, Alasdair Paterson, Nick Potamitis, Anna Reckin, Peter Robinson, Robert Saxton, Steve Spence, Nathan Thompson, Stefan Tobler, Alan Wall, and Tony Williams & translations of poetry by Melih Cevdet Anday & Özdemir Asaf by George Messo; Norbert Hummelt & Hendrik Jackson by Catherine Hales; Óscar Curieses by Valentino Gianuzzi; Antônio Moura by Stefan Tobler; Edoardo Sanguineti by Ian Seed.