He's married and wishes to remain anonymous so I shall only be using his Christian name, I'm talking to Domingo in Little Oakley.

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

This blog post has links to two separate showings online from my poems round and about jazz now, TONE POEM: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/tone...

Flash Fiction series "Shots" by Writer-in-Residence Aodán McCardle @redochre1.bsky.social “Something wasn’t right here.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/aodan-mccard...

Layered Words 2: said husband.

Glen Baxter

Day 9 of 14: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove.... November 1955

Free shipping in the UK? Even for Hope Wolf's brilliant SUSSEX MODERNISM? Run, don't walk yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

These are the best way to buy poetry if you are on a budget. (I always did this, anthologies are GOLD) Also I have a poem in here amongst many extraordinary works by truly great writers and brilliant people.

Today: Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern (Princeton UP, 2022)

More jazz poems on International Times today, internationaltimes.it/from-tone-po..., to complement those on Litter (www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/robe.... And I write about the whole sequence Tone Poem, here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/tone....

More jazz poems (with slightly wonky lineation) on IT. Thanks to Rupert Loydell for publishing them. internationaltimes.it/from-tone-po...

Some more of TONE POEM here, I see.

Stoen 617: cannot / agree

Quoin 56: mill / the thousandth. (2009 Lincoln Presidency)

THE FLOWERSHOUT internationaltimes.it/the-flowersh... On Andrew Kötting’s BLABBERMIND and Iain Sinclair’s Annie Oake’s Orchids (Badbloodandsibyl/Swedenborg House Press 2025) David Erdos

'More than 1,000 staff will be affected as Cardiff University undertakes a “massive” restructuring of its professional services team.' After all, it's a policy that is/has gone so very swimmingly well at every other university that's implemented it...

Words of Joy and Rage and Love internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who is the best Lord?

Counting down with a 1955 issue of STARTLING DETECTVE: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove...

I'm still posting my useless dreams from 50 years ago. Here's 'today's': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/drea.... And I introduce the 'project' here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/12/drea.... I would like to apologise to the people of Peacehaven for how I dreamt about them half a century ago.

congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social ! read a story from his collection 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea' here: minorliteratures.com/2024/02/15/i...

RFK Jr probably went to get a chainsaw

Unbelievable!

Even I thought this was one of mine!

I write about ELLE here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

The book is both critique and enactment of representation: a work pursued by its maker, stalked by its forms, and shadowed by Christine. Elle is a hauntological lyric, a summoning that won’t let the archive lie still. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Elle: A Verse Novel by Robert Sheppard is a fierce, densely layered détournement, refashioning Joseph Kessel’s Belle de Jour through splices, warpings, and an unnerving overlay of 1960s Brighton scandal onto a surrealist template. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Alanis Morissette by Jake Wild Hall is a sprawling, tender, and formally inventive collection that weaves fatherhood, friendship, grief, and masculinity into a shifting, polyphonic tapestry. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Authors include Will Alexander, Scout Tzofiya Bolton, Geoff Hattersley, Martin Hayes, Rishi Dastidar, Rhian Elizabeth, Aaron Kent, Shane McCrae, Rushika Wick, Richard Skinner, Maria Sledmere, Stuart McPherson, Daragh Fleming, and more! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

It offers a sharp snapshot of contemporary literature while reflecting a working-class ethos & a commitment to degentrification, community power & accessible culture. A vibrant, dynamic & award-winning independent press distilled into one compelling volume. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

I'm in this, excerpt from ELLE: more here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

👇🏽👇🏽

Robert Creeley

robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove.... Countdown to 14th, and a look at 1955 and Empty Diary 1955 (more on EDs, with video, here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2020/10/robe...).

Discreteness internationaltimes.it/discreteness/ Sanjeev Sethi Picture Max Ernst

Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline

‘Choose’

...With the Jerome Rothenberg broadside they did last spring, they introduced the graphics. Now each illustrated broadside or postcard requires at least two, often more printings. They are using two and three different colors of ink." 3/3

"Good God! The printing! The first 15 or so were hard enough. There was the setting of the type, the balancing of the pressure, the trying-­to-­get-­the-­poem-straight on the page, the inking, the cleaning, and on and on... 2/

In the book, I have a great quote from legendary Detroit poet and Alternative Press contributor Jim Gustafson on all the labor that went into their letterpress publishing 1/

Ian Seed's sweetly nostalgic recall of poetry small presses from the past and their sense of community for him as an aspiring writer ~ stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/five...

There are two new poem-postcards for sale over at Oo-press.com, just in time for the summer solstice. £5 for Nicky Melville's *how is now* and Em Filtness's *sparkles of time* Oo-press.com/postcard-poems

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

Kurt Schwitters Untitled collage 1929

The 2025 Goldsmith Prize trophy, here cradled by winning author C D Rose, was designed by Cherrie Tong from the Goldsmith University Department of Design. It's based on the twirling pattern of Corporal Trim's walking stick in 'Tristram Shandy' (and 5th November is also, happily, Tristam's birthday!)

FBU hits back at Reform UK "threatening firefighter pensions"