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/

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...