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My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...

Join us at Bonington Gallery for the launch of two new poetry books — 'The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun' by Linda Kemp and 'State Honey' by Andrew Taylor, both published by Leafe...

Queer Asian Poetics: A Conversation with Hongwei Bao by Si Long Chan In 2024, at the inaugural Queer Asian Poets e vent hosted by East...

Holme Fell: A Sample of Landscapes is the title of a collaboration between myself and Trev Eales, based on, coming out of, springboarding fr...

Colin Campbell Robinson from Songs of the Dead                                morbido e lento 3. In the night, patient night, wait until ris...

I’m pleased to say a poem of mine finds its humble place in A Landscape Pulsing with Life: Some tributes to the life and work of Ric Hool , ...

I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that I’ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or – more recently – an anno...

PSALM 30 I watch from cheap cafes every morning and nightSlush in the streets, traffic and men cleaning windscreens at lightsTent cities in the underpass, lichen uncheckedNeither fungus nor plant defo...

State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...

"I wish someone had told me about the importance of being part of a community... I had too many pseudo-romantic ideas about poets in garrets."

Steve Spence “Faunistics  - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas, pub.  R.C. Thomas Things 2024. 135pp. £9.99   ...

Andrew Duncan A Lover’s Prayer “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. Prototype Publishing. 2025. 69 pp., £12.99 If we start with the textile,...

Ian Brinton "Drawn" by Peter Hughes, pub. Broken Sleep. 78pp. £10.99 The back cover of Peter Hughes’s new selection of poems and drawings...

Alan Baker “Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky , pub. Pamenar Press. 109pp. £15.00 The book contai...

Simon Collings “The Moral Theology of the Devil/Clothed with the Sun” by Linda Kemp, pub. Leafe Press. 37pp. £9.00 Linda Kemp’s pamphlet-l...

Troy Cabida Ambient        After John Lucas The man on the phone doesn’t care that I heard of your passing. He called the library to ask for...

Julie Lumsden Crone ( using a line by Ezra Pound ) You may say that she has the power to walk     invisible, although her face and opinions ...

Ian Brinton “Walking Away” by Martyn Crucefix, pub. Dare-Gale Press. 28pp. £8.00   Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see the...

Alan Baker “Black Fens Viral” by Frances Presley, pub. Shearsman, 87pp. £12.95 There are few places on the planet that have not been radic...

PBLJ 11.5 – guest-edited by Paul Robert

Robert Sheppard Poems from Tone Poem: Starlight and Stardust                        for Jazz Ian Perry Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock, Same Moon...

Biljana Scott Before we move on We sip and catch up. Always at the same moment teasers and laughter over the kitchen counter when my apron c...

Lila Matsumoto Enclosed garden in late spring  Upon arriving at the venue, the artist asked if she could help herself to the food that was...

Rupert Loydell Reality will Result To support verbal suggestions and instructions, time is visualized as a huge wheel in the universe. ...

Martin Stannard on Paul Violi’s ‘EXACTA’ This little essay could easily be called “Why I Am Not A Scholar”, for in attempting to write about...

Rob Kiely from 'Psalms' pillows What would the moro-reflex in language be? It’s amazing how quickly living by the sea becomes impossible. Be...

Ian Brinton A talk given at the launch of Ric Hool’s latest publication from Red Squirrel Press, Shook Up! Stubbing the toe or a question of...

Mélisande Fitzsimons Instructions on How to Process Tobacco (After Steve Spence) 1. Fags  Rip the plastic wrapping the tobacco comes in ha...

Rob Kiely Scenes from a Code of Conduct for Robyn When going on a long journey, it is customary to leave the cap of a pen behind and tak...

Horace, tr. Aidan Everett Horace Odes 2.14 Postumus, Postumus, how they slip away, so fast, the years. No pious a...

Mike Ferguson  Flying Machines Sustained in the sky like adventure, like dreams, like artifice, like rhythms. Lineage of the leaf and silk...

Lucia Daramus A Howl In A Movie A window. closed window. a few trees. outside  walking trees. a fence talkative fence. It is dark, the middl...