A reminder about the book of tributes to Ric Hool robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/01/trib..., and I've added a link to a talk on Ric's work by Ian Brinton: here in @leafepress.bsky.social www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/ian-...

I write about my review of Tim Allen's books in @tearsinthefence.bsky.social here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-.... But note that Norman Jope writes about the Plymouth Scene (out of which Allen emerged) in Litter @leafepress.bsky.social here: www.littermagazine.org/2026/02/revi....

www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems... @leafepress.bsky.social @anthropocenempg.bsky.social Enjoying these new poems by Alan Baker in the wonderful Anthropocene

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...

@ianseedauthor.bsky.social's newest book, Forgetfulness, published by Shearsman, is officially out and he will be launching it tomorrow in London. To get you in the mood for it (and his waiting-for-you SP book), read this short interview published with Ian by the RLF. www.rlf.org.uk/posts/my-wri...

"...a virtual reality version of a worldwide journey" Steve Spence reviews “Faunistics - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas: www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

Andrew Duncan reviews “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. @prototypepubs.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

"Peter Hughes’s language sketches his movement from personal recollection and historical echoes to an embracing of the shifting textures of place..." Ian Brinton reviews "Drawn" by Peter Hughes, pub. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

"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...

"The sense of this work is much bigger than I am conveying here, more multi-faceted and fluid..." Simon Collings reviews Linda Kemp's new Leafe Press book: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/revi...

"The man on the phone doesn’t care that I heard of your passing." A poem for John Lucas by Troy Cabida: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/troy...

"I don’t look at the sea and ask what it means. I’m not interested in poetry. I never gave up sugar in tea." Three poems by Julie Lumsden: www.littermagazine.org/2025/12/juli...

"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...

"These texts are a humane response to this ravaged landscape and to the experience of living through a pandemic..." Litter reviews "Black Fens Viral" by Frances Presley, pub. @ShearsmanBooks www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

Poems, prose meditations and photography on the subject of ecology and the climate crisis: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue

"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...