HERE THEY ARE 

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Here They Are
Smith/Doorstop 2026

We can over­hear the con­ver­sa­tion between (im)patient pub­lisher and hes­it­ating author: ‘Where are those poems you’ve been prom­ising me?’ ‘Well, here they are – what do you think?’ Peter Sansom obvi­ously thought they should be pub­lished forth­with, and Here They Are was pub­lished in the hot summer of 2026. The poet reflects:

Poetry some­times goes its own way, abandoning storytelling and lyric and fol­lowing instead ‘the way of lan­guage’, dis­cov­ering for a change what it has to say — more inter­esting than what the ‘I’ intended.

This short, com­pel­ling col­lec­tion fits John Ashbery’s descrip­tion of Michael Schmidt’s poetry as ‘at once earthy and numinous’.