My new book is out today 🙌 It’s collection number 7, and is a meditation on home. Click here to purchase: amzn.eu/d/hwbogfV Thanks to all that support little known writers and small presses ❤️

DarkWinter Press is happy to announce the release of little town blues, the latest poetry collection by Paul Robert Mullen @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social, in both paperback and e-version for Kindle. Find out more about the collection and how to order it below! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/darkwin...

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of UK poet @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social Paul Robert Mullen's new collection, little town blues. Kindle pre-sale is now live--the paperback will be available on October 3oth! Pre-order the Kindle version here: a-fwd.com/asin=B0FXB7F...

My first #WednesdayWIPs. Working on a maleness poetry collab w/ @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social. Pages of raw notes like this, no structure, just fragments. If you’re stuck in the same place: I get it. Keep going. #WhatAreYouWorkingOn

#TheCut with @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social New words. New insight. One of our most comprehensive poet features to date. 🔗 thebrokenspine.co.uk...

Starting them early 😇 #pinkfloyd

Announcing this Friday’s #PoemsAbout theme is #FierceBattle Claws out. Teeth bared. Still breathing. 📅 Share your poem Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. 🖼 Use alt-text if posting images. #TakeRisks #LeaveScars #EndOnAnImage

Catch up on everything Broken Spine: open + upcoming submission windows, latest releases, and all the links you need in one place. linktr.ee/brokenspinea... Updated, organised, no faff.

I live in a lovely place. It inspires me a lot. Sometimes I walk to the coast and poems tend to arrive. Do you live in an inspiring place? #southport #coast #poetry

Great times 🙌

This Friday’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Green — still growing or already rotting? 📅 Feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. 💬 Read & comment on 3+ poems. 🖼 Add alt-text if posting images. #Authentic #TakeRisks

This week’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Saltwater! 🌊 🖋 Write your poem. 📅 Share it Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. Let’s create poems that #TakeRisks & #LeaveScars! #Authentic #EndOnAnImage #LightAndDark

Thanks for posting 🙌 I’d forgotten about that one 🤣

Thanks to @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social for this review: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/04/06/f...

Oh yeah, my book releases today. You can buy print copies here: #PeelingApples Much love to @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social for believing, & @maryearnshaw.bsky.social @ellierees23.bsky.social @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & @lozzawriting.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/jcjXddq

Thank you @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social! This amazing book is on Kindle pre-sale right now with the paperback released on April 4th!

A pleasure … get yourself a copy! A fascinating read and superb debut

Thanks to @maryearnshaw.bsky.social (and @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social) for organising and comparing last night's reading. A few notes and vids (not of last night) on the poems read: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/03/thre...

Another mini-tour over. Three readings (Southport, Glasgow, Ainsdale) reflected upon (briefly) : robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/03/thre...

An outstanding record of depth and beauty. Crosby is much missed.

The last pictures with my beautiful girl. They bring so much but leave so soon. Farewell old friend, Coco ❤️

Poets of Southport—this is your night. #ThePoetryConjecture isn’t just another poetry event; it’s a platform. A call to arms. A stage for those who write with fire. @[email protected] @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @robertsheppard.bsky.social are here to lift you. 🔗 shorturl.at/TYbU7

Lawrence Ferlinghetti saw it coming …

I'll be reading at this event on March 21st along with @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social and Jen Corcoran. #CedarsFarm #PoetryReading You can book to come listen here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/maw...

Age brings grey hairs and greater thoughts. Pros and cons. #embracingage

A vast amount of work!

Rosmarie Waldrop

For #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social - a poem from my collected poems recently out with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social … #poetry #newbookrelease #mayaangelou

I shall be reading a retrospective set, gradually gathering shape. But other readers needed too.

We do! Poets come join…

2017 post robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2017/06/ian-... The text published but I think there's a link to the video!

For #smallpoemsunday for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social - a poem from my collected poems recently out with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social … #poetry #newbookrelease

For #smallpoemsunday for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social - a poem from my collected poems recently out with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social … 😊 #poetry #newbookrelease

A pleasure to host this array of poets at the ever brilliant @maryearnshaw.bsky.social's second #PoetsCorner

Southport poets, this is for you. #ThePoetryConjecture is a stage for voices that need to be heard. @[email protected] @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @robertsheppard.bsky.social are making it happen, but this is your space. March 19th, 2025. Ready to step up? 🔗 shorturl.at/TYbU7

A fascinating blog!

Been out there a few times this year reading my poems and writings from the latest collected works with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social … last night was a sell-out at the wonderful MeCycle in Ainsdale, and I read alongside Mary Earnshaw, Phil Barnett and Elspeth McLean. #poetry #poems #poet

Love this part of the world. So many creative people gathered. Great photo 👏

Most poetry prizes charge high entry fees. This one won’t. #TheBrokenSpinePoetryAward will be free to enter with real prizes—but only if we raise £5,000 this year. No funding, no award. Can you help? 🔗 shorturl.at/G2mMo

Rosmarie Waldrop, one of my favorite closing poems in any book ever (from Gap Gardening)

Posts from 2015: a pedagogic one: How to write conceptual writing (a list of hints that supplemented a chapter I wrote for a book called The Poetry Workshop): robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2015/06/robe...

🖋️ Submissions for the 2025 Festive Anthology open in TOMORROW! Share your winter-inspired fiction. March 1–April 30. Info: shorturl.at/e3Qwr #SootAndBoots #Festive #ShortFiction #SubmissionWindow

2013 blogging: actually an earlier essay on poetics in the works of Charles Bernstein and Allen Fisher. It got used in 2 other essays but I thought the original should appear on my blog (the logic being more would read it): robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2013/12/char...

Looks to be a good issue. I've got a review of Philip Terry's Purgatorio; I write about it, but more about reviewing and my own Dante ditherings here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-t... (There's a link to buying the mag too!)

Officially 8 weeks alcohol free today … full liver detox 2/3 complete. One stone down and counting, 6 novels read, 40,000+ words written, music recorded, lots of new places explored. 😇 #healthkick #detox

to be beautiful forever William Bronk

Now waiting on advance praise for my novella—a piece of literary fiction that moves at its own pace. Exciting (and nerve-wracking) times ahead! #WritingCommunity #LiteraryFiction #PeelingApples #DebutNovella @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social

from the anonymous issue of Adventures in Poetry

For #smallpoemsunday for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social - a poem from my collected poems recently out with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social … it was originally published in my 2020 collection ‘disintegration’ with @animalheartpress.bsky.social 😊 #poetry #newbookrelease

I very much appreciate the nomination! I work hard at my writing - it’s nice to be appreciated 😊