Robert Sheppard
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
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November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Patricia forgot to tell me there was a parcel. It was some pre-publication copies of my verse-novel, ELLE. Looking good. No unboxing video, but details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Thanks to Aaron Kent of Broken Sleep...
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Patricia forgot to tell me there was a parcel. It was some pre-publication copies of my verse-novel, ELLE. Looking good. No unboxing video, but details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Thanks to Aaron Kent of Broken Sleep...
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what is left of decades of people’s careers? an illustration of a crying window emoji held up by a crane
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
what is left of decades of people’s careers? an illustration of a crying window emoji held up by a crane
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my former employer immediately taking down all the webpages for colleagues they made redundant so all that’s left is this nauseating twee crap
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
my former employer immediately taking down all the webpages for colleagues they made redundant so all that’s left is this nauseating twee crap
I'd forgotten this was how I 'celebrated' 'turning' 50: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2005/11/robe...
Robert Sheppard at Fifty
Robert Sheppard at Fifty: Two Poems, a Photo and a Load of Links I like to emphasise the zine part of this blogzine, but here’s a pure bi...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'd forgotten this was how I 'celebrated' 'turning' 50: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2005/11/robe...
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Quoin 59: part of a dollar (2009 D Birth and Early Childhood)
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Quoin 59: part of a dollar (2009 D Birth and Early Childhood)
Countdown to my 70th: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove...
November 1955
She might have experimented with anger but her experiment would have failed, famous as she was among her set for having once persuade...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Countdown to my 70th: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove...
Yes, Nuttall and Latham were painted blue. Sounds about right. I've written about the event several places, but here is the most recent: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-...
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Yes, Nuttall and Latham were painted blue. Sounds about right. I've written about the event several places, but here is the most recent: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-...
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S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook,
, discovering the uncorrected galley of Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004) on my bookshelf,
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, discovering the uncorrected galley of Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004) on my bookshelf,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook,
, discovering the uncorrected galley of Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004) on my bookshelf,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...
, discovering the uncorrected galley of Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (2004) on my bookshelf,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...
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Servicing all my Fleetwood Mac needs since 1971
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Servicing all my Fleetwood Mac needs since 1971
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
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Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
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Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
Perhaps they'll deal with the Confucius Centres. Always found them odd.
MPs preparing to examine Chinese state influence at British universities
MPs preparing to examine Chinese state influence at British universities
Committee’s inquiry into review of UK-China relations to be broadened after Sheffield Hallam University disclosures
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UK politics live – latest updates
The foreign affairs select committee is drawing up plans to examine Chinese government interference in academia as part of its inquiry into the UK’s strategy towards Beijing.
MPs are broadening the scope of their investigation into the China audit, an internal government review of UK-China relations that concluded in June, to look into Chinese state influence at British universities. Continue reading...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Perhaps they'll deal with the Confucius Centres. Always found them odd.
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I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.
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A multilayered work by interdisciplinary artist Anima, in which the instructions for an alternative chess transform into visual poetry and musical pieces. Many thanks to Words Without Borders.
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@sohinibasak.bsky.social
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Chatrang by Anima Ehtiat - Words Without Borders
Iranian artist Anima builds an avant-garde piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A multilayered work by interdisciplinary artist Anima, in which the instructions for an alternative chess transform into visual poetry and musical pieces. Many thanks to Words Without Borders.
@wwborders.bsky.social
@sohinibasak.bsky.social
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@wwborders.bsky.social
@sohinibasak.bsky.social
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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What's that, Christmas?
Friends, Penteract Press is sadly winding down operations. They have launched a major sale of some of their incredible books (including BardCode): Customers get 40% off all books and chapbooks using the code PENULTIMATE at checkout.
penteractpress.com/store/bardcode
Friends, Penteract Press is sadly winding down operations. They have launched a major sale of some of their incredible books (including BardCode): Customers get 40% off all books and chapbooks using the code PENULTIMATE at checkout.
penteractpress.com/store/bardcode
BardCode - Gregory Betts — Penteract Press
Full Colour, Hardback, 210 x 148mm, 172pp BardCode presents Shakespeare’s Sonnets as never seen before, translating them into vibrant visual poetry. In this visualisation project, Gregory Betts...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
What's that, Christmas?
Friends, Penteract Press is sadly winding down operations. They have launched a major sale of some of their incredible books (including BardCode): Customers get 40% off all books and chapbooks using the code PENULTIMATE at checkout.
penteractpress.com/store/bardcode
Friends, Penteract Press is sadly winding down operations. They have launched a major sale of some of their incredible books (including BardCode): Customers get 40% off all books and chapbooks using the code PENULTIMATE at checkout.
penteractpress.com/store/bardcode
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Waterway to have a good time!
Waterways and farmers
YouTube video by Alan Partridge - Quote of the Day
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November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Waterway to have a good time!
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
10th November. Countdown to 1955 (as it were): robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove...
November 1955
In a real-life drama, she might have walked to the kitchen to put the kettle on as though this was an ordinary Saturday morning. Sh...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
10th November. Countdown to 1955 (as it were): robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove...
I'm reading Tim Allen's Very Rare Poems Upon the Earth (Aquifer). I'm reviewing it.
It's Monday again and today I'm reading What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com, the conclusion to the Sworn Soldier trilogy and I've Snake-Eater lined up after that
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I'm reading Tim Allen's Very Rare Poems Upon the Earth (Aquifer). I'm reviewing it.
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First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
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Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Northumbria to freeze pay if staff refuse TPS-USS pension switch
University says moving employees from more expensive scheme will save it up to £11 million a year
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...