The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2008 contains new poetry by Susan Connolly, Peter Dent, Ray DiPalma, Anne Gorrick, David Greenslade, Harry Guest, Lee Harwood, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Tom Lowenstein, D.S. Marriott, Alasdair Paterson, Julie Sampson, Nathan Shepherdson, Robert Sheppard, C.K. Stead, Janet Sutherland, Nathaniel Tarn, Mark Terrill, Carolyn van Langenberg and Robert Vas Dias, there are also translations of Elsa Cross and David Huerta by John Oliver Simon, of Dieter Gräf by Andrew Shields and of Leticia Luna by Toshiya Kamei.