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-...
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
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...
@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...
"...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...
Andrew Duncan reviews “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. @prototypepubs.bsky.social:
www.littermagazine.org/2026/01/revi...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
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-...
"Sound becomes sight and the haunting circles move outwards."
Ian Brinton discusses the new collection of poetry by Ric Hool:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/ian-...
#FF It’s National Lemon Juice Day. To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “L” and “J”:
@lamplitmag.bsky.social
@jackanapespress.bsky.social
@laststanzapoetry.bsky.social
@jacklegpress.bsky.social
@leafepress.bsky.social
Cont ⬇️
Good to see more of these wonderful Psalm poems from Alan Baker @leafepress.bsky.social and looking forward to a collection. These two in the current Tears in the Fence
"notice a mangled garden fork in the cylinder
wrapped around the expensive machinery
...expect to be sacked"
New poetry from Mélisande Fitzsimons:
www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/meli...
