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The Robert Sheppard Companion
Robert Sheppard has been at the forefront of innovative poetry in the UK since the 1980s. This wide-ranging volume celebrates his writings, offering extensive examinations of his work. Including contributions from major contemporaries and younger scholars, this book situates the remarkable writing life of one of Britain's most imaginative poets.
A Translated Man
Two translators discover that Rene Van Valckenborch, an expatiate Belgian poet, has two entirely distinct bodies of work: one in walloon and one in Flemish. This volume is the result of their endeavours.
History Or Sleep - Selected Poems
Robert Sheppard's selection draws on every book of his poetry since Returns of 1985 through to Words Out of Time of 2015, and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his work and their restlessly changing forms. Ian Davidson in Poetry Wales called Sheppard's Complete Twentieth Century Blues 'a major poem of serious intent'. Of his recent Shearsman collections, Alan Baker in Litter called Warrant Error, 'political poetry of the first order'; Ben Hickman, in PN Review, wrote 'Berlin Bursts perhaps makes one of the biggest claims for the inherent politics of language and art in recent British poetry.' A Translated Man, a sequence of 'fictional poems', was described by Tom Jenks in Tears in the Fence, as 'a compendious work, a vademecum for innovative writing' and as 'a book which, whilst in keeping stylistically and thematically with Sheppard's other work, exhibits a degree of playfulness not always so obvious there... It is, above all, a deeply pleasurable work.' Kelvin Corcoran wrote about Words Out of Time: 'There you are characteristically free of flash or reserve and it increases the sum of what can be written about, I think. And it's funny.'
Selected Poems
Robert Sheppard selects the best of Mary Robinson's poetry for a general audience, while demonstrating the range of her work. He includes the complete Sappho and Phaon, the first English sonnet sequence since the Renaissance.
Complete Twentieth Century Blues
Complete Twentieth Century Blues is the definitive edition of a network of texts written and assembled as a time-based project between 1989 and the end of the last century. At its heart is an alternative history of the twentieth century. This long-awaited volume is revised throughout, fully indexed, and with many previously unpublished texts.
The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry
This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard’s axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form. Analyzing the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Caroline Bergval, Sean Bonney, Barry MacSweeney, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Allen Fisher, and Geraldine Monk, Sheppard argues that their forms are a matter of authorial design and readerly engagement.
Tin Pan Arcadia
This book contains by far the largest selection from the project of interconnected texts called Twentieth Century Blues that Robert Sheppard produced between 1989 and 2000. Other parts include Empty Diaries (Stride 1998), which is an alternative history of the twentieth century narrated through a series of female narrators. The Lores (Reality Street, 2003), is a long poem re-negotiating that same history through a poetics of creative linkage, from the ethical imperative that Derrida offers: ‘one must make links with that which makes links with Auschwitz’. Tin Pan Arcadia is a collection of most of the rest of the project, ranging from the ‘Killing Boxes’ sequences dealing with the Fi...
The Poetry of Saying
In 'The Poetry of Saying' Robert Sheppard explores an array of experimental writers and styles of writing many of which have never secured a large audience in Britain, but which are often fascinatingly innovative.
The English Strain
'Enraptured by the versioning bug, ' Sheppard confesses of his variations of Petrarch 'I was off on one.' With comic verve, he refunctions some fine sonneteers: Petrarch, and those of The English Strain Wyatt and Surrey.
Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair has a growing reputation as a novelist and writer of documentary non--fiction. This study covers his major works, but also seeks to trace the connections between the writings and his earlier books of poetry. Indeed, it traces the intertextual curve of Sinclair's entire oeuvre, and demonstrates that its unity lies in the very desire to make connections between disparate cultural experience, for example between the context of avant garde poetry that Sinclair emerged from, and the world of pulp fiction that he has negotiated as a book dealer and an editor.
