My third collection of poetry, THE FUNERAL COLONY, came out in July.
I’m proud of it. It took a long time to write, revise, worry over, rewrite, etc. (SOOO many times!) You can buy it at oliversheppard-dot-com.
FUNERAL COLONY can be bought on Amazon—and elsewhere!
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Scott Couturier's NIGHTMUSE: POEMS OF SPECULATIVE DARKNESS is now available to preorder at Jackanapes Press, and is expected to ship in early November. This collection is a dark extravaganza—Gothic, lurid, decadent. #booksky #weirdpoetry #horror #cosmichorror
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My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, is out now. Link to purchase in comments.
My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured.
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From my new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY.
It can be purchased here: TheFuneralColony.com
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This weekend I’m looking forward to working on putting together audio tracks for the audiobook version of The Funeral Colony! 🩶
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Doug Gibson reads from Nursery Crimes, by myself and Aurélie Grasser Rifi Saidi, on the Plan Nine Crunch YouTube Channel. Thanks Doug! Details on how to order the book are in the comments.
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My new poem is up! "The Sofa Ate My Father" - it's exactly as weird as it sounds. Prepare for a story you won't forget. 🤯
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The celestial cleft opens as a wound, oozing the laughter of dead androids.
Beneath my nails, the gray paste of mad lust.
Mary's tongue braids crowns of cum on my bewildered shaft.
The spasm is a liturgy.
— I exult in the dark. Do you want to cum ?
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A page from Falling for a Dolphin by Heathcote Williams. The lower 2/3 are take up with a grainy, green, underwater photo of a mottled dolphin emerging from the gloom. It looks smug, as all dolphins do. Above the image is part of the poem. It reads: It returns To move up and down your body, Spraying each section with a barrage of echo-locating clicks: Penetrating your brain, heart, lungs, stomach, groin, legs, and feet; Seeming to guage each in depth... Mapping your body's geography In punctilious detail
Another page. An image at the top is another grainy photo of the smug-looking dolphin. This time, its head is above water, the dolphin, water, and sky are all various shades of steel and slate blue. Cut off at the bottom of the page is a photo of grass-crowned cliffs. In between the images is another section of the poem. It reads: It touches your cheek, Nuzzling your skin, Then moves away With a glance that seems to invite you To stroll, horizontally, in a direction of its choosing. You accept. Magnetically allured by a very complete stranger. Willingly locked into its company.
Yet another page. An image at the top is an underwater shot of the smug dolphin coming towards the camera. It is the only thing illuminated against the deep, black abyss from whence it comes. The lower image is a shot of a human in diving gear swimming above a dolphin. The angle of the shot is such that, should the human have been unclothed, we'd be staring at their bum hole from between their splayed feet. Between the images, another section of the poem reads: It sidles down beneath your legs, Parting them with its bottle-nose, And slowly rises, Deftly tuning itself to your centre of gravity.
Another page! Most of it is taken up with a photo of a dolphin's tail apparently thrashing above water, churning up a wild white spray which surges forth in all directions. Below, three lines from the poem. Ten, fifteen, twenty knots - You gasp for breath As you are scooped in and out of the water,
I hadn't read anything by Heathcote Williams until I came across Falling for a Dolphin at work, today
All I can say is, if you like long gothic horror poems about a dolphin, in 2nd person, with a hint of Harlequin romance & accompanying grainy photos- this might be the book for you
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New #DevLog:
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Where's the pencil lead?
Dunno. Shall we go find some?
Lead on, MacDuff!
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It doesn't belong,
said the Purple High Flyer,
of the item among
the bits of blown tire.
Surely, it must
said the piece of Barbed Wire,
Else why the distrust
if it's just an Outlier?
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Was taking the trash out b4 it stormed and a funny little poem popped onto my head
Crocs
No socks
Stomping through the frost
All my warmth lost
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