I assume that they also considered cutting the growing number of six figure salaries and benefits of the executive teams as a priority, right? Right?

Tom Phillips was born on May 25, 1937 #AfterRaphael #AnotherGreenWorld

Which is why I favour the term poetics which I've (perhaps too many times) defined as a speculative and anticipatory discourse that is fluid and ongoing. I collected most of my writings on it here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-...

Dear Friends, AN ANNOUNCEMENT: My first poetry collection will be published in the Spring of 2027 by Broken Sleep Books. I am simply delighted - and immensely grateful to @godzillakent.bsky.social and everyone at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetryislife

The opening lines of Wonders of Obligation, a long poem by my favourite poet Roy Fisher, published in a beautiful edition by Braad Editions. ‘…and the afternoon/comes on steely and still/under the heat,’

Couple of Sunday early summer weird 8 liners, little boxes of rubble.

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

It is no exaggeration to say York's Centre for Lifelong Learning changed my life. A creative writing course led by @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social has resulted in novels published, new friends, and later this year, I very much hope, a PhD. It's such a loss.

My thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

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There's so much surrealism in Sussex (where I grew up): and in my verse novel ELLE, set in Brighton: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

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So proud to publish this amazing new collection @c21literature.bsky.social. Read here for writing on the literary sad girl, technology, wikipedia, time and stuckness, brexlit and much more

Fastest block I've ever received! Why do poets publish in the far-right Spectator, and why is this poet so reluctant to discuss it?

Sampler: 20th poetic diary entry for a year's writing task, started in the week beginning 1.1.26...

@alinaetc.bsky.social - - Robert Creeley Centenary Robert Creeley celebrated on the Allen Ginsberg Project today allenginsberg.org/2026/05/m-m-... allenginsberg.org/2026/05/t-m-... allenginsberg.org/2026/05/w-m-... allenginsberg.org/.../t-m-21-r...

ROB THE PERV Reform UK’s candidate for #Makerfield plumbs new depths. #RobbThePerv

I wondered whether my interview with Creeley was online somewhere. It's not, though it's mentioned here: dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jast/...

A favorite poem by Robert Creeley, on this, the day of his centenary.

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

happy birthday Robert Creeley 🎈

Week 20 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

En route to the library, through the empty streets of Liverpool, listening to Anne Briggs sing She Moved Through the Fair. Would recommend. Note to @thelilactime.bsky.social. Replies are on.

In Southport, Reform, Makerfield candidate Kenyon exploited the aftermath of a child's death before official facts emerged. Minutes after the deaths, he weaponised the tragedy to seed racist cover-up tropes and launch aggressive political attacks.

📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

A final 'sample' (text, image, video) from our project HOLME FELL: A SAMPLE OF LANDSCAPES before publication in gorgeous book form on June 1st, HERE: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/05/trev...

@billymills.bsky.social - Robert Creeley's Birthday celebrated today on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/.../t-m-21-r...

I strongly support the Independent Committee on Climate Change's call for the government to introduce a maximum temperature allowed in workplaces. Nobody should have to work in unsafe conditions, and we need to recognise the risks that the climate crisis presents in our everyday lives.

I like the one in Greenbank Park. It finds the highest branch and issues forth just like yours!

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Soon.

Two Teaching Fellow posts in Creative Writing at Warwick Writing Programme Poetry + another genre Fiction + another genre Join the number one UK writing programme with a lively international community 15 mins from Stratford on Avon. Please share warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/...

Writer friends! The AI-generated email scams targeting authors are getting more sophisticated. I got one today w/ a real editor's name on it, which could be very convincing to someone who doesn't know how actual editors communicate, so I annotated it to highlight red flags. Spread the word, ok?

Incredible news for my employer and for Norfolk in general. If you haven’t yet visited SCVA, you’re missing out

The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize is awarded to a UK or Irish writer, or a writer currently resident in those countries, for a novel focusing on the experience of travel away from home. In memory of Malcolm Lowry and endowed by Gordon Bowker, his biographer, and Ramdei Bowker.

Detailed, forensic reporting on RefUK's best available candidate for Makerfield & his social media history. So much for candidate vetting, hey? Active links in the report, too - perfect for sharing wherever people are talking about him. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

I write about earlier work by Atkins here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/01/robe..., and about later work in Nothing On Atkins (also from Crater Press).

the way one does in a flagrant tizzy of anticipation, & spying a little postscript by Marina Tsvetaeva: “I spit on my passport / . . . / Not a word of death.” Two phrases resolute as late-day thunder, perfect to the present moment. The title quotes Mikhail Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics.

Thumbing around in Tim Atkins’s 2021 Crater Press book—the breezily titled “Nothing Conclusive Has Yet Taken Place in the World The Ultimate Word of the World and About the World Has Not Yet Been Spoken The World Is Open and Free Everything Is Still in the Future and Will Always Be”—newly received,

I'm glad we're asking this question and I hope the answer we eventually arrive at is that letting a few august institutions with huge pots of money have so much influence on our literary tastes was always a really, really, really bad idea.

here's the 1st chapter of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (new from @pressassembly.bsky.social available here: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...). Have a read and let's imagine how we can do writing right by doing it wrong together. #poetry #teaching #doitwrong

Rounded Corners 51: to the south line of the town of Chester,

Named trees in Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854), in order of occurrence.

The Uni paid tens of thousands to transport his cat and dog over from HK too

@robertsheppard.bsky.social - Robert Creeley Centennial continues - allenginsberg.org/2026/05/w-m-...

Order Colin Herd’s book here: spitepress.co.uk/product/aqua... “Like meringue, Colin Herd’s collection is sweet & buoyant. With ingredients pushed beyond their assigned function, Colin is doing what he does best, proving that anything can make a poem & a poem can make you delighted” —Hasib Hourani

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

Hard-won wisdom... Six lines from Ingeborg Bachmann, who grew up in Nazi Austria. Six of her poems are translated by W. D. Jackson, in @pnreview.bsky.social .