@robertsheppard
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Library?
Force of Circumstance and Other Poems (Hardcover) Prynne, J. H. Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London... First Edition Force of Circumstance and Other Poems J. H. Prynne Seller Image Buy Used - Hardcover Condition: Used - Near fine US$ 1,000.00 US$ 5.74 shipping Ships within U.S.A. Quantity: 1 available
if I won the lottery, I wouldn’t tell anyone. but there would be signs
I hope she sues them into oblivion 💜
Congratulations! 10% off is a good deal. Perhaps for my little Broken Sleep title? robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Or for dozens of others.
Pssst! Pass it on… Myself, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @emilywebz.bsky.social are looking to set up a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Follow us over at Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DVve2wlDXh...
@univeng.bsky.social
Disgusting. Possibly even more cynical than my own institution which uses a subsidiary of all new staff to avoid paying a decent pension (I suspect they’ll try to do it to us all soon). The effect has been to deter all mid-career applicants but desperate young people and hourly-paid still come.
E MER B R R M TEE BE RM MER I E MB R R MEER EE B RM M ER I E MB R I remember, Joe Brainard 'A masterpiece.' Paul Auster
Joe Brainard’s ‘I Remember’ (1970-1975) is a small book that is immense inside, not least because of the way it—generously, wittily, companionably—opens up the reader to their own worlds of memory and feeling. There’s no such thing as an everybody book, but this is one. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.
I see there is a celebratory deal on, with 10% off everything on the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social website with the code WINNERS2026, so now would be a great time to order some books (you could even order my poetry collection New Famous Phrases!).
1)'The Rotters' Club' by Hatfield & the North was released 51 years ago this week. This is what I wrote about it in my top ten albums of 1975:
"The Rotters’ Club is the second of just two albums by Hatfield and the North, and to my ears, their best work...
#musicsky @jonathancoe.bsky.social
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'
Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
Oblique Strategy of the Day… Humanize something free of error
Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt
The first verdict on The General is in, from Scott Thurston: 'As fierce and uncompromising as ever' he says. If you could order a copy it would help a very innovative small press survive, they are run on shoestring budgets and enthusiasm. Here's the link: www.erratumpress.com/the-general
No wonder Paul Simon had time to write that song then!🙂
"the radius of Fractals sloshed / upon the clay"
(Frances Kruk, Lo-Fi Frags In-Progress)
Huge congratulations to my publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social for winning Small Press of the Year for Wales at the British Book Awards. I have seen firsthand the professionalism and hard work of @godzillakent.bsky.social and everyone at Broken Sleep Books. Well deserved!
A screenshot of Grammarly using my name to provide "expert feedback", generated via an LLM.
This is what Grammarly looks like when it is impersonating you, in a fraudulent way, in order to generate revenue for its product.
I have contacted a law firm asking for an opinion on a lawsuit. However, in the UK personality rights are not well protected, so a US case would be preferable.
Are you a poet with a developing national and/or international profile for whom a poetry fellowship would make a significant artistic and professional difference? apply for the Caster Cultural Fellow in Poetry at University of Leeds by 1 April jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
Lunch break with Frank O‘Hara at 100: „It's like a locomotive on the march, the season
of distress and clarity
and my door is open to the evenings of midwinter's lightly falling snow over the newspapers.“
Out today on zimzalla: Colour / Grammar by Greg Thomas, a set of colour-coded eco-poetry postcards, in a mandarin orange box. Each box contains two copies of each card: one to keep, one to send. The reverse of each card has a space for an address, a message and a stamp. More at zimzalla.co.uk
AI is based upon pirated work. Big names got behind this campaign but probably every author has been ripped off in some way.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
With all of the horrors he's unleashing on the world, I know this is not the biggest deal, but he is such an unspeakable disgrace.
50 years ago, Steve McCaffery published Carnival, The Second Panel, an explosion of words and letters produced by typewriter and stamp.
"the message being that we are all poets one and all as long as we have lungs"
Another cheeky little peek into the past on Smithdown Road
New piece: “Answers in Progress”
On Amiri Baraka, the Black Communications Project, and the dream of building a radical Black media network in the late 1960s.
Archive, poetry, infrastructure.
Stable link here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa....
DM me for the pdf
