Looking forward to sharing my collaboration with @leafepress.bsky.social on Saturday at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. Such a brilliant line-up. More details here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham

A new independent Nottingham Book Festival, organised by members of the Society of Authors (East Midlands), is taking place on Sat 5 Sept 2026 at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. Expect guest speakers, writing workshops, readings and panels, and 1-1 sessions with publishing professionals. #booksky

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

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

Thought I would do a little photoshoot of some of the lovely @longbarrowpress.bsky.social books I’ve got. The Blue Hour is a particular favourite of mine.

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...

lastpoetstanding.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... a poem, of sorts

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...

Warhol at Lakeside, Nottingham.

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...

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...

I hold out my hands to show they are empty that we’ve come for a while to the end of things To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...

To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza £2 off until 20 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

Selling quickly', but it's free. My inaugural professorial lecture in Nottingham on 4 March, titled 'Byard's Quantum Leaps: The Origins and Mutations of a Folk Tale'. Reserve a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Mondays to Saturdays until 27 March. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Come and have a look!

1st March 2026.

Am moved by Mike Ferguson ‘s gem of a collection Drawing on Previous Learning. One to make you smile and cry. Published by Wrecking Ball Press. @mferguson-writer.bsky.social

Up the Rainbow Stairs. The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Works by Mike Badger & Jeff Young. Review, Art in Liverpool magazine: www.artinliverpool.com/features-old...

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Soon.

Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.

"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...

New on Futch Journal: 'To the Post Office, God is a Hook in the Sky' by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-... 📮📯"After reading the original Thomas De Quincey 1803 diary in June, I was taken by the drafts and notes De Quincey made for his letters."

These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap

My thanks to Linda Kemp for publishing an excerpt from a prose work over @futch-journal.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-...

"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...

Rico tells everybody: Buy Elle: A Verse Novel now, ahead of the online launch Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle....

Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

New pamphlet!: www.futchpress.info/press Responding to a call for poems attending to religion – faith – spirituality, this anthology features the poetry of Jack Belloli, Sarah Cave, Rey Conquer, Jamie Lee, Lucy Lovell, @dradny.bsky.social Andrew Taylor and Nadira Wallace. Edited by Linda Kemp.

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…

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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/