"The range of József’s poetry is impressive. “By the Danube” is a magnificent meditation on mortality, fate and the common lot of humanity." My review of "The Song of the Cosmos", Selected Poems of Attila József, pub. @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social: www.littermagazine.org/2026/05/revi...

Six months ago this bad girl erupted into the surreal (or at least arrived on my doorstep). robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

Looking forward to performing my poetry at the European Poetry Festival at Nottingham Contemporary on 6 June. Free event and all welcome! Register here www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham

Rupert Loydell reviews “A Book of Psalms” by Alan Baker and “Saints of Little Faith” by Megan Pinto, pub @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social and the 87press: www.littermagazine.org/2026/05/a-bo...

Litter reviews “Sussex Coils and Loops” by Paul Holman, pub. Scarlet Imprint: www.littermagazine.org/2026/05/suss...

Here's my current book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Here's the next one: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/05/trev....

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...

From ancient deities to modern-day poets, queer life has shaped Chinese culture for centuries. In this new episode of our 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China podcast, Yangyang sits down with Hongwei Bao and Darius Longarino to explore queer Chinese activism and literature.

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...

Thanks to Dr Si Long Chan for this great conversation about poetry, queerness and East Asian identity, and to @leafepress.bsky.social Litter Magazine for publishing it. www.littermagazine.org/2026/04/inte...

A first peep at HOLME FELL, a collaboration between Trev Eales (photographer) and myself: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/03/trev...

"This experience of really seeing something, of really understanding something, this artifice, this made-up thing, stayed with me." Kelvin Corcoran on first encountering John Keats and Basil Bunting: www.littermagazine.org/2026/03/kelv...

"In the night, patient night, wait until rising in the ash of the ashen sun." New poetry by Colin Campbell Robinson: www.littermagazine.org/2026/03/coli...

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...

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...