"collapse into invention tumbling chords and curling notes" Poems from Tone Poem: Starlight and Stardust, by Robert Sheppard: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/robe...

"In the haunting world of Kelvin Corcoran’s language the names of the Chorus of Orphans are ‘whispered along the migrant routes.’" Ian Brinton reviews "Under Tainaron" by Kelvin Corcoran: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

"What I love about this work is the way in which a combined interest in art and science can suggest the interconnectedness of things and provide a rich foundation for poetry..." Steve Spence reviews Elena Brake: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

"Why did it run under the fence and into the dog’s path when it had a whole field behind it?" Four poems by Biljana Scott: www.littermagazine.org/2025/10/bilj...

"The collection is extremely powerful and leaves one with the question as David Caddy puts it ‘Can the land afford a farm’ or ‘has the farm already been bought’." Litter reviews "Buying The Farm" by Elize O'toole, pub.@ShearsmanBooks : www.littermagazine.org/2025/10/revi...

"Everything about the artist’s movements suggested that for her life wasn’t a dreamy happenstance..." New poetry from Lila Matsumoto: www.littermagazine.org/2025/10/lila...

New from Leafe Press: "The Moral Theology Of The Devil / Clothed With The Sun" by Linda Kemp". 38 pages. £9.00 "Seeded from Thomas Merton’s contemplations, this open-ended text invites the reader into participation in the creation of meaning." www.leafepress.org/2025/08/the-...

"Magnificent critiques of strange beliefs..." Three new poems by Rupert Loydell: www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/rupe...

"...by virtue of combining the poet’s invention and imagination and wit, these horses ignite the reader’s imagination." Martin Stannard discusses a poem by Paul Violi: www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/mart...

"The fact that things break is always a part of their function. I hope I have not caused pain. I wish I could feel it instead of you." Two poems in the form of psalms from Rob Kiely: www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/rob-...

"Sound becomes sight and the haunting circles move outwards." Ian Brinton discusses the new collection of poetry by Ric Hool: www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/ian-...

#FF It’s National Lemon Juice Day. To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “L” and “J”: @lamplitmag.bsky.social @jackanapespress.bsky.social @laststanzapoetry.bsky.social @jacklegpress.bsky.social @leafepress.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

Good to see more of these wonderful Psalm poems from Alan Baker @leafepress.bsky.social and looking forward to a collection. These two in the current Tears in the Fence

"notice a mangled garden fork in the cylinder wrapped around the expensive machinery ...expect to be sacked" New poetry from Mélisande Fitzsimons: www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/meli...

"A tourist is a precondition of a certain kind of queue. A tourist is a latent hostage. A tourist is a set of mitochondrial clocks reconfigured." New poem from Rob Kiely: www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/rob-...

"Postumus, Postumus, how they slip away, so fast, the years..." And ode by the Roman poet, Horace, translated by Aidan Everett: www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/hora...

"The mayfly dance is communal if gender-skewed; the daylily bloom is beautiful then ugly." Three prose-poems by Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social‬: www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/mike...

how can I help you? can I give you haloperidol and two tablets of lorazepam? no, thanks, my cricket wants Russian Vodka." A poem by Lucia Daramus: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/luci...

"I like shallow, you said – shallow is good – to exist for a thing that binds us – a poet’s portrait, a hairdo, a crime novel..." Two poems by Nick Power @holynowhere.bsky.social‬: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/nick...

"the word haunted comes to mind as in relation to memory and re-creation of the past" Steve Spence reviews "Concrete" by John Philips: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/revi...

"And Kernan does not ignore the paradox that must strike every reader of Schuyler, that is how someone with such evident behavioural issues wrote the poems that he did." Martin Stannard reviews the new biography of James Schuyler, pub. @fsgbooks.bsky.social‬: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/revi...

"I could swear that I heard someone call, far away, beyond the fence among the darkening trees..." Two new prose poems by Simon Collings: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/simo...

"Listen to that birdsong! The God invented that! The bloody God invented the dawn chorus, period pains, sleepless nights, and period pains." A poem by C.J. Driscoll: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/cj-d...

"I fell asleep later to the slightest rain luminous like a film set calculating implacable math" Three new poems by Maria Sledmere: www.littermagazine.org/2025/07/mari...

If you're after good stuff, here is the good stuff.

"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...

"a lifetime lush & desolate mortification swaying in the close of being told finally it’s fine" An extract from a new long poem by Linda Kemp: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/lind...

"Here we have the song of the ocean & it’s all down to bubbles." Three new poems by Steve Spence: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/stev...

"A cheap and spicy little Sabine wine is all you’ll get to drink tonight at mine, in modest bucketfuls." Horace's "Odes", translated from the Latin by Aidan Everett: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/hora...

"it never works as well when we’re forced to ask someone else to scratch an itch" Four poems by @tristan-moss.bsky.social‬: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/tris...

Leafe Press and Litter have new web addresses: leafepress.org littermagazine.org Please update your links and re-post. Thanks!

"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...

"The rapid shifts of mood and theme can also point to a lack of egoism..." Andrew Duncan discusses the collected poems of Ian Patterson, pub @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social‬: www.littermagazine.com/2025/05/revi...

"...you want to go back and experience it again, and it won’t disappoint you, because it’s rich enough to offer more than a single moment of pleasure." Martin Stannard on a new collection from New York poet Tony Towle: www.littermagazine.com/2025/06/revi...

"Anti-cyclonic gloom over village a grand name for Emo band..." Three new poems by Steven Waling: www.littermagazine.com/2025/05/stev...

"Stuffy bakery of those sweetmeats of mine, childhood’s pure countless egg-yolk, mother." Poem XXIII of 'Trilce' by Cesar Vallejo, translated by tr. Mario Domínguez Parra & Michael Lee Rattigan: www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/cesa...

"You shrink from me Chloe, lost like a young deer in the wild hills. Please, anxious Mummy, appear!" Two poems by the Roman poet Horace, translated by Aidan Everett: www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/hora...

"Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced..." An extract from the sequence "York Walls Walk Work" by @gobygoodby.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/john...

"Paul Rossiter’s monumental fifty-year collection of poems provides us with a memento written by ‘A passing traveller’" Ian Brinton reviews “Passages, Poems 1969-2019” by Paul Rossiter: www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/revi...

"Arcadian Rustbelt is a restitutive attempt to answer the question, Was there a second generation of the English Underground?" Litter interviews the editors of "Arcadian Rustbelt" the new anthology of 1980s underground poetry, pub. @Waterloo_Press: www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/two-...

"Through cross-barred windows, I can see the porticos and arches of a distant tomorrow..." A new poem by Norman Jope: www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/norm...

Celebrate World Book Day: read a book.

2021: 20 yrs of blogging: I looked back to my days on the MA Creative Writing at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 77-78. robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2021/03/robe...

"Marbled notebook willow wand and symbiotic bacteria in the gut..." Four new poems by Peter Dent: www.littermagazine.com/2025/02/pete...

"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...

"These texts take a hard look at the world we live in as many people are forced to see it; from behind barbed wire, deprived of freedom or oppressed." Litter reviews "The Complete Pieces" by Sam Smith @originalplus, pub: @alec-newman-kfs.bsky.social www.littermagazine.com/2025/03/revi...

“dear dearest, what did you have for breakfast and / did you feel / very much alone?” dear dearest by Blossom Hibbert in suddenly, it’s now, from @leafepress.bsky.social

Love everything about this including the account of Raworth reading ‘a little like being run over by a train, only with words’. Two quotes and a credo to follow. (1/4)

More on the 20 years of my blog. Here, year by year, are some posts that I like out of the 1500! They are mostly literary critical, or poetics, with some poetry (and the odd post nothing to do with any of those!) robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/02/look...