lastpoetstanding.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... a poem, of sorts

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...

Warhol at Lakeside, Nottingham.

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...

All the best!

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

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...

The pamphlet and CD editions of 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey: the blue-grey coastal edge of Nova Scotia, with dilapidated wooden lobster traps in the foreground, sea and distant land beyond, and white clouds and blue sky above.

I hold out my hands to show they are empty
that we’ve come for a while to the end of things

To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here:
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New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...

A stack of hardback copies of Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'

To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you.

'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza

£2 off until 20 February
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One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83 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...

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

Professor Rory Waterman’s Inaugural Lecture Byard’s Quantum Leaps: the origins and mutations of a folk tale

Selling quickly', but it's free. My inaugural professorial lecture in Nottingham on 4 March, titled 'Byard's Quantum Leaps: The Origins and Mutations of a Folk Tale'. Reserve a place here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

Four assemblages from the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery. Pieces incorporate buttons, marbles, photographs, jars of see, ceramics, fragments of poems from old books, coins and beads

The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Mondays to Saturdays until 27 March. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Come and have a look!

1st March 2026.

Am moved by Mike Ferguson ‘s gem of a collection Drawing on Previous Learning. One to make you smile and cry. Published by Wrecking Ball Press. @mferguson-writer.bsky.social

Lucky enough to see him in Liverpool in 1986. Legend.

Image shows a box assemblage including a children’s book UP THE RAINBOW STAIRS, a cigarette card of a seahorse, a shell and two small books. Photo of child in circular metal frame

Up the Rainbow Stairs.
The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Works by Mike Badger & Jeff Young.

Review, Art in Liverpool magazine:

www.artinliverpool.com/features-old...

Image shows painted wooden box assemblage with paper collage, ballerina photograph, sherry glass full of marbles made by Jeff Young in the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Soon.

Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.

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

"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...

Stencil graffiti of a statue of Jesus Christ, spray painted on to what looks like a concrete bollard type of structure. Behind this there is abundant green grass. Photo taken at the former Everton Village now Everton Park, 13th July 2024.

New on Futch Journal: 'To the Post Office, God is a Hook in the Sky' by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-... 📮📯"After reading the original Thomas De Quincey 1803 diary in June, I was taken by the drafts and notes De Quincey made for his letters."

These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap

To the Post Office by Andrew Taylor

My thanks to Linda Kemp for publishing an excerpt from a prose work over @futch-journal.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-...

Review - “Walking Away” by Martyn Crucefix 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...

"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...

Rico tells everybody: Buy Elle: A Verse Novel now, ahead of the online launch Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle....

Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

New pamphlet!: www.futchpress.info/press
Responding to a call for poems attending to religion – faith – spirituality, this anthology features the poetry of Jack Belloli, Sarah Cave, Rey Conquer, Jamie Lee, Lucy Lovell, @dradny.bsky.social Andrew Taylor and Nadira Wallace. Edited by Linda Kemp.

Looking forward to reading alongside my mate Cliff Yates at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on 8th October. See you there!