"Baker interlaces symbols across multiple frames of reference, so that sparrows fly through St. Bede’s banquet hall, through an Amazon warehouse, into the psalmist’s dreams..." Jack Martell's well-informed review of 'A Book of Psalms': blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/issue-36/jac...

"The range of József’s poetry is impressive. “By the Danube” is a magnificent meditation on mortality, fate and the common lot of humanity." My review of "The Song of the Cosmos", Selected Poems of Attila József, pub. @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.org/2026/05/revi...

Six months ago this bad girl erupted into the surreal (or at least arrived on my doorstep). robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...

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Looking forward to performing my poetry at the European Poetry Festival at Nottingham Contemporary on 6 June. Free event and all welcome! Register here www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham

Rupert Loydell reviews “A Book of Psalms” by Alan Baker and “Saints of Little Faith” by Megan Pinto, pub @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social and the 87press: www.littermagazine.org/2026/05/a-bo...

Litter reviews “Sussex Coils and Loops” by Paul Holman, pub. Scarlet Imprint: www.littermagazine.org/2026/05/suss...

Here's my current book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Here's the next one: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/05/trev....

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...

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Nottingham people - you may wish to come to this next Saturday. Launching books by Linda Kemp and @dradny.bsky.social : boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...

Linda Kemp & Andrew Taylor Poetry Book Launch with Leafe Press - Bonington Gallery

Join us at Bonington Gallery for the launch of two new poetry books — 'The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun' by Linda Kemp and 'State Honey' by Andrew Taylor, both published by Leafe...

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From ancient deities to modern-day poets, queer life has shaped Chinese culture for centuries. In this new episode of our 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China podcast, Yangyang sits down with Hongwei Bao and Darius Longarino to explore queer Chinese activism and literature.

Looking forward to launching my new @leafepress.bsky.social collection alongside Linda Kemp at The Bonington Galley in Nottingham on Sat May 9th 11-1. Free admission and free coffee and pastries. RSVP at boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...

Thanks to Dr Si Long Chan for this great conversation about poetry, queerness and East Asian identity, and to @leafepress.bsky.social Litter Magazine for publishing it. www.littermagazine.org/2026/04/inte...

Interview with poet, playwright and queer activist Hongwei Bao

Queer Asian Poetics: A Conversation with Hongwei Bao by Si Long Chan In 2024, at the inaugural Queer Asian Poets e vent hosted by East...

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A first peep at HOLME FELL, a collaboration between Trev Eales (photographer) and myself: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/03/trev...

Trev Eales and Robert Sheppard HOLME FELL: a Sample of Landscapes Number One

Holme Fell: A Sample of Landscapes is the title of a collaboration between myself and Trev Eales, based on, coming out of, springboarding fr...

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"This experience of really seeing something, of really understanding something, this artifice, this made-up thing, stayed with me." Kelvin Corcoran on first encountering John Keats and Basil Bunting: www.littermagazine.org/2026/03/kelv...

"In the night, patient night, wait until rising in the ash of the ashen sun." New poetry by Colin Campbell Robinson: www.littermagazine.org/2026/03/coli...

Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...

A reminder about the book of tributes to Ric Hool robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/01/trib..., and I've added a link to a talk on Ric's work by Ian Brinton: here in @leafepress.bsky.social www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/ian-...

Tributes to Ric Hool included in A Landscape Pulsing with Life (one from me)

I’m pleased to say a poem of mine finds its humble place in A Landscape Pulsing with Life: Some tributes to the life and work of Ric Hool , ...

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I write about my review of Tim Allen's books in @tearsinthefence.bsky.social here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-.... But note that Norman Jope writes about the Plymouth Scene (out of which Allen emerged) in Litter @leafepress.bsky.social here: www.littermagazine.org/2026/02/revi....

One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83

I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that I’ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or – more recently – an anno...

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www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems... @leafepress.bsky.social @anthropocenempg.bsky.social Enjoying these new poems by Alan Baker in the wonderful Anthropocene

New from Leafe Press: "State Honey" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social "...fast-moving to contemplative, presenting experience mediated by language that is fragmentary and shifting, disconcerting and never dull." www.leafepress.org/2026/01/stat...

State Honey - Andrew Taylor

State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...

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@ianseedauthor.bsky.social's newest book, Forgetfulness, published by Shearsman, is officially out and he will be launching it tomorrow in London. To get you in the mood for it (and his waiting-for-you SP book), read this short interview published with Ian by the RLF. www.rlf.org.uk/posts/my-wri...

My Writing Life: Ian Seed

"I wish someone had told me about the importance of being part of a community... I had too many pseudo-romantic ideas about poets in garrets."

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"...a virtual reality version of a worldwide journey" Steve Spence reviews “Faunistics - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas: www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

Review - "Faunistics - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations" by R.C. Thomas

Steve Spence “Faunistics  - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas, pub.  R.C. Thomas Things 2024. 135pp. £9.99   ...

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Andrew Duncan reviews “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. @prototypepubs.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

Review - "Silk Work" by Imogen Cassells

Andrew Duncan A Lover’s Prayer “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. Prototype Publishing. 2025. 69 pp., £12.99 If we start with the textile,...

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"Peter Hughes’s language sketches his movement from personal recollection and historical echoes to an embracing of the shifting textures of place..." Ian Brinton reviews "Drawn" by Peter Hughes, pub. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

Review - "Drawn" by Peter Hughes

Ian Brinton "Drawn" by Peter Hughes, pub. Broken Sleep. 78pp. £10.99 The back cover of Peter Hughes’s new selection of poems and drawings...

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"it succeeds in creating a lyricism that synthesises all its disparate sources. In that respect at least, it's a remarkable achievement." “Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky, pub. @pamenarpress.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/revi...

Review - "Apropos Paradise Square" by Ágnes Lehóczky

Alan Baker “Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky , pub. Pamenar Press. 109pp. £15.00 The book contai...

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"The sense of this work is much bigger than I am conveying here, more multi-faceted and fluid..." Simon Collings reviews Linda Kemp's new Leafe Press book: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/revi...

Review - “The Moral Theology of the Devil/Clothed with the Sun” by Linda Kemp

Simon Collings “The Moral Theology of the Devil/Clothed with the Sun” by Linda Kemp, pub. Leafe Press. 37pp. £9.00 Linda Kemp’s pamphlet-l...

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"The man on the phone doesn’t care that I heard of your passing." A poem for John Lucas by Troy Cabida: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/troy...

"I don’t look at the sea and ask what it means. I’m not interested in poetry. I never gave up sugar in tea." Three poems by Julie Lumsden: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/juli...

"In Martyn Crucefix’s volume there is a humble awareness of the passing of time which does not resolve itself into an easily achieved sense of regret." Ian Brinton reviews Martin Crucefix: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

Review - “Walking Away” by Martyn Crucefix

Ian Brinton “Walking Away” by Martyn Crucefix, pub. Dare-Gale Press. 28pp. £8.00   Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see the...

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"These texts are a humane response to this ravaged landscape and to the experience of living through a pandemic..." Litter reviews "Black Fens Viral" by Frances Presley, pub. @ShearsmanBooks www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

Review - Black Fens Viral by Frances Presley

Alan Baker “Black Fens Viral” by Frances Presley, pub. Shearsman, 87pp. £12.95 There are few places on the planet that have not been radic...

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Poems, prose meditations and photography on the subject of ecology and the climate crisis: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue

PBLJ 11.5 – guest-edited by Paul Robert — Poetry Birmingham

PBLJ 11.5 – guest-edited by Paul Robert

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