Looking forward to reading alongside my mate Cliff Yates at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on 8th October. See you there!

Rene Van Valckenborch (whom I invented) and who writes in both Flemish and French: euoia.weebly.com/rene-van-val.... He has a Vilvoorde poem.

This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.

Pleased to be reading / collaborating with Sarah Dawson at this event.

"yous two are cosmos okaying twin notches turning at love’s bpm we are allowed to be alive" Four new poems by Maria Sledmere: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/mari...

Heaven 17.

"There’s an eye for observatory detail within this work that puts in mind the poetry and writings of James Schuyler" @dradny.bsky.social‬ reviews "Silk Work" by Imogen Cassels, pub. Prototype Press: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/revi...

Thanks to Shaun and Neil. Some new poems.

Thanks to Rupert Loydell for reviewing my @serenbooks.bsky.social title ‘There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch’ in @intltimes today. Rupert gets it! internationaltimes.it/everything-eve…

No lies detected! #ResistTrump

There have been some reviews of my book about Peter Finch, published by Seren Books. Thanks to the writers, editors and publishers: bobmeepoetryandmore.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/t... tearsinthefence.com/2025/04/29/t... www.buzzmag.co.uk/theres-every....

I’ve reviewed The Scaffold’s new box set, ‘A Box of Scaffold’ for International Times internationaltimes.it/time-capsule-2/

Very pleased to have two poems in issue 27 of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, and to follow two by @dradny.bsky.social, whose launch of his collection 'European Hymns' inspired the first of mine.

I'll be reading from my new collection, Come Here to This Gate (@carcanet.bsky.social), a Lincoln University Library, 6.30-8pm, on 30 April. Five other readers, too! To book, email [email protected].

Published today, ‘There's Everything to Play For’ by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social is a biographical and critical reflection of Peter Finch’s career as a poet, writer and literary entrepreneur. Available in bookshops and online now www.serenbooks.com/book/theres-...

Two new pomes at Litter Magazine - Juicebomb Paradiso/ Houlihan’s Variety Club www.littermagazine.com/2022/12/nick...

Anyone who liked the Throat album (all six of you), there was a Saturday morning special on Ireland’s RTE @rte.ie with Mark Healy, available here ⬇️ www.rte.ie/radio/2xm/cl...

A great @av8music_ release in the post: Will Sergeant @willsergeant.com : Weird As Fish 1978/ like a JG Ballard story reimagined for a VHS score.You don't have to be wired to be weird. Available here: av8recordsltd.co.uk/product/will...

Thanks to @alanbaker1511.bsky.social for publishing a new poem, dedicated to @paulsimpson.bsky.social over in Litter. www.littermagazine.com/2025/02/andr...

in case you didn't catch, VERSeFest 2025 @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social includes TWO in-person poetry workshops, one w American poet Eileen Myles ($20) and another w Canadian poet Phil Hall (free!); pre-registration required, but spaces still available! www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

Bill Drummond on 'Revolutionary Spirit' by The Wild Swans. x www.penkilnburn.com/home/a-local...

"transfer the conversations across centuries communicate via lovers’ chaise longue..." Poem - "De Quincey in Everton" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.com/2025/02/andr...

Coming soon: ‘There's Everything to Play For’ by Andrew Taylor is a biographical and critical reflection of the work of Welsh poet and writer Peter Finch, a companion to his Collected Poems. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/theres-....

This month, we are publishing Cancer by Tom Raworth!📃 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

Our books will last a lifetime, and you can pick up any 3 of them for £32 until Monday. Offer includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, Chris Jones, and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Thanks to @alanbaker1511.bsky.social for publishing a new poem, dedicated to @paulsimpson.bsky.social over in Litter. www.littermagazine.com/2025/02/andr...

There are some more of my psalms M58. Thanks to editor @dradny.bsky.social : www.m58.co.uk/post/7752968...

Everything here from books and readings, Scott Thurston's Inaugural, the annual Malcolm Lowry day in L'pool, my thoughts on 'prose poetry' and memories of the Smallest Poetry Festival in the World: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-2.... More posts coming...

Only two places left...

This month, we are publishing Fourth and Walnut by Jeremy Over (@jeremyover.bsky.social)!🌰 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

He made them laugh, he made them cry. Well, laugh anyway

A pleasure to read alongside @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social last night, alongside Linda Kemp, Julie Gardner and Sarah Smith. Thanks to all involved and the fantastic audience.

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Making collaborative plans with an academic colleague from another university for later in the year. Email sign off: 'Fingers crossed I still have a job by then!' How are we supposed to do any of the things academia is founded on under these conditions

The Mersey, rippling across itself like a kind of static

There is now an affordable paperback edition of this book on Jesmyn Ward's writing (eds. @sherimariephd.bsky.social, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, me) @edinburghup.bsky.social. I am very proud of this book which would be useful to anyone working on Ward. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jesmyn-...

Beepbada Beep Beep internationaltimes.it/beepbada-bee... © Martin Stannard, 2025

Two poetry book launches @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham on 29th January at 7pm. Linda Kemp's @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 'Annunciation Sonnets' and Andrew Taylor's (@dradny.bsky.social) 'European Hymns'. It will be a good one! Tickets: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetr... 📚

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Mushrooms turn dead wood into food and medicine which is better than anything any tech start up has ever done

My Shearsman Books collection ‘European Hymns’ continues its tour! Here it is in Paris. Thanks to @andrewthacker.bsky.social for the photo!

Yes indeed!

Tonight’s New Year. The weatherman forecasts a bone-cold ten below, but now you cling to heat and skin to banish auguries of snow. 'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here: longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...