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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It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.
Fun book: I was in volume one!
Looking forward to reading NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2) in which I have the tiniest thing ever
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November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fun book: I was in volume one!
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Thanks for sharing this excellent interview with the talented Chris McCabe!
Read an online Q&A with Chris McCabe @oncreativewriting.bsky.social talking #poetry, writing across artforms, psychogeography, cities, creativity, Hedonism and more:
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Artist Chris McCabe on psychogeography and the poetics of cities
Artist Chris McCabe on psychogeography. He is a poet, novelist, and editor and in this interview discusses his journey from Liverpool roots to London’s experimental poetry scene. His work spans genre...
oncreativewriting.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thanks for sharing this excellent interview with the talented Chris McCabe!
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What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report.
A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.
A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report.
A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.
A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.
Launch online tonight: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Launch online tonight: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
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Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
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In the sky astride the stars the universe slowly turns.
internationaltimes.it
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November 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In the sky astride the stars the universe slowly turns.
internationaltimes.it
www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...
internationaltimes.it
www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
That's fine company to be in. Thanks for getting them!
Arrived today from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and looking forward to reading. Likely I will post temptations from these over coming days...
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
That's fine company to be in. Thanks for getting them!
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Even Scottish publishers are getting in on Black Friday, a made-up holiday that bafflingly crossed the pond w/o Thanksgiving due to the unfort v effective capitalist internationale but anyway it means a paperback of MATERIAL POETICS is only £19 til Monday edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-materia...
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Even Scottish publishers are getting in on Black Friday, a made-up holiday that bafflingly crossed the pond w/o Thanksgiving due to the unfort v effective capitalist internationale but anyway it means a paperback of MATERIAL POETICS is only £19 til Monday edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-materia...
Launch tomorrow...
Rico tells everybody: Buy Elle: A Verse Novel now, ahead of the online launch Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle....
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Launch tomorrow...
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An early version of the Kavanagh poem we now know as "Raglan Road". The widely disliked line about the Queen of Hearts still making tarts is not here.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
An early version of the Kavanagh poem we now know as "Raglan Road". The widely disliked line about the Queen of Hearts still making tarts is not here.
No, he doesn't.
Samuel Beckett wants to know who's your favorite action figurine.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
No, he doesn't.
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The edited out words are: “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. 'Openly' does a lot of heavy lifting there, too.
BBC have been told that they can't quote the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”, which the BBC has censored from the Reith Lectures.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The edited out words are: “the most openly corrupt president in American history”. 'Openly' does a lot of heavy lifting there, too.
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Nick's been a brilliant contributor to the project - he was one of the first people I asked to take part, and you can read his original anthology (all twelve stories first published in The London Magazine) and other occasional contributions here: apersonalanthology.com/category/nic...
Nicholas Royle – A Personal Anthology
Nicholas Royle’s latest short story collection is Ornithology (Confingo Publishing). He is also the author of seven novels, including First Novel (Vintage), and two other volumes of short fiction, …
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October 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Nick's been a brilliant contributor to the project - he was one of the first people I asked to take part, and you can read his original anthology (all twelve stories first published in The London Magazine) and other occasional contributions here: apersonalanthology.com/category/nic...
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Prostate cancer: NHS screening programme could come one step closer today
A recent study showed that regular PSA testing of men over 50 could reduce deaths by 13%
news.sky.com/story/prosta...
A recent study showed that regular PSA testing of men over 50 could reduce deaths by 13%
news.sky.com/story/prosta...
Prostate cancer: NHS screening programme could come one step closer today
A recent study showed that regular PSA testing of men over 50 could reduce deaths by 13%, a similar benefit to breast screening. David Cameron, Sir Chris Hoy and Dermot Murnaghan all support the chan...
news.sky.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Prostate cancer: NHS screening programme could come one step closer today
A recent study showed that regular PSA testing of men over 50 could reduce deaths by 13%
news.sky.com/story/prosta...
A recent study showed that regular PSA testing of men over 50 could reduce deaths by 13%
news.sky.com/story/prosta...
A lovely image from his Dante images, which I plundered and used backwards (and didn't abandon, despite the title of this post): robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/12/on-a...
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A lovely image from his Dante images, which I plundered and used backwards (and didn't abandon, despite the title of this post): robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/12/on-a...
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Was on a local Your Party WhatsApp group for a short time. They were arguing for a fortnight about whether or not there should be an agenda for the first meeting. 'IT'S NOT YOUR PARTY IT'S MINE.' The best satire isn't invented. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles
Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative nature
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Was on a local Your Party WhatsApp group for a short time. They were arguing for a fortnight about whether or not there should be an agenda for the first meeting. 'IT'S NOT YOUR PARTY IT'S MINE.' The best satire isn't invented. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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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