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

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...

Tributes to Ric Hool included in A Landscape Pulsing with Life (one from me) 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 , ...

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-...

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...

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

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...

My Writing Life: Ian Seed "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."

@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...

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

"...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...

Review - "Silk Work" by Imogen Cassells 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,...

Andrew Duncan reviews “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. @prototypepubs.bsky.social:

www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...

Review - "Drawn" by Peter Hughes 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...

"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...

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...

Review - “The Moral Theology of the Devil/Clothed with the Sun” by Linda Kemp 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...

"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...

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...

Review - Black Fens Viral by Frances Presley 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...

"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...

PBLJ 11.5 – guest-edited by Paul Robert — Poetry Birmingham PBLJ 11.5 – guest-edited by Paul Robert

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-...