Robert Sheppard
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
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Delighted to have my copy of @saltpublishing.com’s Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by the indefatigable @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, who in his wide-ranging and goodness-filled introduction very generously bigs up the “brilliant idea” of A Personal Anthology, my online short story project.
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Delighted to have my copy of @saltpublishing.com’s Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by the indefatigable @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, who in his wide-ranging and goodness-filled introduction very generously bigs up the “brilliant idea” of A Personal Anthology, my online short story project.
@ailsacox.bsky.social name-checked here, justifiably.
This is in BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2025. I'm quite frankly floored at this, Nick was in the very first anthology I edited in 2010 and remains someone whose talent I am staggered by. That he feels that I am a part of this august group has genuinely floored me.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
@ailsacox.bsky.social name-checked here, justifiably.
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Glen Baxter
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Glen Baxter
ELLE: A Verse Novel is published (and launched) on Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
ELLE: A Verse Novel is published (and launched) on Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
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News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social
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This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
Grief is the Thing in Pleather: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Released 26th November 2025Edition of 100 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-3369-2 “Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, always to the same en…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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NEWS: We've been ranked top in the UK for ‘overall postgraduate research student experience’, fourth for ‘research community’ and fifth for ‘research skills development'🎓Read more: news.cumbria.ac.uk/news/univers...
July 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
NEWS: We've been ranked top in the UK for ‘overall postgraduate research student experience’, fourth for ‘research community’ and fifth for ‘research skills development'🎓Read more: news.cumbria.ac.uk/news/univers...
Good to see something from Gad.
Gad Hollander – from RE
internationaltimes.it/gad-hollande...
various scribbles masquerading as haiku comprise this notebook
internationaltimes.it/gad-hollande...
various scribbles masquerading as haiku comprise this notebook
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Good to see something from Gad.
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Last night, Small Birds Press flew over to the @royalholloway.bsky.social London Campus to treat our Small Press Takeover audience to an evening of book art and experimental poetic performance from Caroline Harris, Cat Chong, and May Dearlove🧡
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Last night, Small Birds Press flew over to the @royalholloway.bsky.social London Campus to treat our Small Press Takeover audience to an evening of book art and experimental poetic performance from Caroline Harris, Cat Chong, and May Dearlove🧡
Rico tells everybody: Buy Elle: A Verse Novel now, ahead of the online launch Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle....
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Rico tells everybody: Buy Elle: A Verse Novel now, ahead of the online launch Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle....
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Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
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Huge breaking news from court in Liverpool. Paul Doyle has burst into tears in the dock and has pleaded guilty to all offences related to the Liverpool FC parade crash earlier this year in which he injured More than 100 pedestrians, aged between six months and 78
Follow live updates here
Follow live updates here
Paul Doyle pleads guilty - LIVE updates from court
More than 100 pedestrians, aged between six months and 78, were injured when a car collided with fans in Liverpool city centre
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Huge breaking news from court in Liverpool. Paul Doyle has burst into tears in the dock and has pleaded guilty to all offences related to the Liverpool FC parade crash earlier this year in which he injured More than 100 pedestrians, aged between six months and 78
Follow live updates here
Follow live updates here
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Get the money from Russia?
Why Nigel Farage, is the scale of it too big?
Maybe you could ask Arron Banks to fund it!
#ReformRussianBribes
Maybe you could ask Arron Banks to fund it!
#ReformRussianBribes
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Get the money from Russia?
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Glen Baxter
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Glen Baxter
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
That first photo is 100 yards from where I live...
Urban Squall
internationaltimes.it/urban-squall/
Stephen A. Linstead
Image 1: Storm Darragh (Liverpool Echo)
Image 2: Paraphernalia (Stephen Linstead)
internationaltimes.it/urban-squall/
Stephen A. Linstead
Image 1: Storm Darragh (Liverpool Echo)
Image 2: Paraphernalia (Stephen Linstead)
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
That first photo is 100 yards from where I live...
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Few days left before I start looking at it all. Please share with anyone with the right experience ✅
If you know someone with these skills and experience, who could use a day a week income boost (£20ph) please send them my job advert. Mostly remote.
Need a good egg to work with Jan - July, to help me organise current project workloads and past documentation.
🌲🌳🌲🌳
www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/70926
Need a good egg to work with Jan - July, to help me organise current project workloads and past documentation.
🌲🌳🌲🌳
www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/70926
Studio Assistant | Job
Roy Claire Potter is seeking an organised, straightforward, creative person to join their studio as an assistant for one day per week over 6-month contract with the potential to extend.
www.artsjobs.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Few days left before I start looking at it all. Please share with anyone with the right experience ✅
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@billymills.bsky.social - Surrealist poet David Gascoyne - allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
@billymills.bsky.social - Surrealist poet David Gascoyne - allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-...
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Tax ! Tax ! Tax !
Here’s how £100 was spent by our UK government in 2023–24:
£4.15 Working-age welfare
£0.50 Asylum system
£0.70 Overseas aid£22 NHS
£6 Defence
£10 Education
£10 Debt interest
£11.40 State pensions
#Budget #Budget2026
Here’s how £100 was spent by our UK government in 2023–24:
£4.15 Working-age welfare
£0.50 Asylum system
£0.70 Overseas aid£22 NHS
£6 Defence
£10 Education
£10 Debt interest
£11.40 State pensions
#Budget #Budget2026
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Tax ! Tax ! Tax !
Here’s how £100 was spent by our UK government in 2023–24:
£4.15 Working-age welfare
£0.50 Asylum system
£0.70 Overseas aid£22 NHS
£6 Defence
£10 Education
£10 Debt interest
£11.40 State pensions
#Budget #Budget2026
Here’s how £100 was spent by our UK government in 2023–24:
£4.15 Working-age welfare
£0.50 Asylum system
£0.70 Overseas aid£22 NHS
£6 Defence
£10 Education
£10 Debt interest
£11.40 State pensions
#Budget #Budget2026