Robert Sheppard is British

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and critic. He is at the forefront of the movement sometimes called "linguistically innovative poetry". xford Anthology of British and Irish Poetry/ref>

Life

Robert Sheppard was born in 1955 and was educated at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

(BA; MA; PhD). In 1996 he moved from London to Liverpool to teach at

Edge Hill University Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, which opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, before admitting its first male st ...

as Professor of Poetry and Poetics and Programme Leader of the MA in Creative Writing. In 1996, Sheppard became Emeritus Professor at Edge Hill.

Poetry and Criticism

Sheppard's magnum opus is his long-running work "Twentieth Century Blues". This was composed over many years, and published piece-meal before Salt Publishing brought out the complete work in 2008. "Hymns to the God in which My Typewriter Believes", published in 2006, illustrates Sheppard's view of poetry as one art among many, as it alludes to and builds on other artforms. Sheppard's sonnet sequence, "Warrant Error" was published by Shearsman Books in 2009. According to Sean Colletti, Sheppard is a major talent, whose use of form includes precise use of the couplet, while Alan Baker calls his work "political poetry of the first order."">- Litter Magazine - Alan Baker reviews "Warrant Error".
/ref> Sheppard has edited important studies of poets

Roy Fisher Roy Fisher (11 June 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English poet and jazz pianist. His poetry shows an openness to both European and American modernist influences, while remaining grounded in the experience of living in the English Midlands. ...

and

Lee Harwood Lee Harwood (6 June 1939 – 26 July 2015) was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. Life Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living ...

, and is editor of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry" and the blogzine "Pages".

Published works

Poetry: *''Returns:Textures,1985'' *''Daylight Robbery: Stride, 1990'' *''The Flashlight Sonata: Stride,1993'' *''Empty Diaries: Stride, 1998'' *''The Lores: Reality Street Editions, 2003'' *''The Anti-Orpheus: A Notebook'' *''Tin Pan Arcadia: Salt Publishing, 2004'' *''Hymns to the God in which My Typewriter Believes: Stride, 2006'' *''Complete Twentieth Century Blues: Salt Publishing, 2008'' *''Warrant Error, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2009'' *''Berlin Bursts, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011'' *''A Translated Man, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2013'' *''Words Out of Time, Newton-le-Willows: Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2015'' *''Unfinish (forthcoming: London: Veer Publications)'' Shorter Poetry Collections and Pamphlets: *''Dedicated to you but you weren’t listening, London: Writers Forum, 1979'' *''Returns, London:Textures,1985'' *''Private Number, London: Northern Lights Publishers, 1986'' *''Letter from the Blackstock Road, London: Oasis Books, 1988'' *''Internal Exile, Southampton: Torque Press,1988'' *''Codes and Diodes (with Bob Cobbing), London: Writers Forum, 1991'' *''Fox Spotlights, Cheltenham: The Short Run Press, 1995'' *''Free Fists (with Patricia Farrell), London: Writers Forum, 1996'' *''Neutral Drums (with Patricia Farrell), London: Writers Forum, 1999'' *''Blatent Blather/Virulent Whoops (with Bob Cobbing), London: Writers Forum, 2001'' *''The Anti-Orpheus: a notebook, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2004. (Also available as an e-book at www.shearsman. com)'' *''Risk Assessment (with Rupert Loydell) Damaged Goods, 2006'' *''The Given, Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2010'' *''The Only Life, Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2012'' *''HAP: Understudies of Thomas Wyatt's Petrarch, Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2018'' As Editor: *''Floating Capital: New Poets from London'' *''News for the Ear: Homage to Roy Fisher'' *''The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood'' *''The Door of Taldire: Selected Pomes of Paul Evans'' *''Twitters for a Lark - Poetry of the European Union of Imaginary Authors'' Criticism: *''For Language: Poetics and Linguistically Innovative Poetry 1978-1997'' *''The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents (Liverpool University Press, 2005)'' *''Iain Sinclair (Northcote House, 2007)''

References

External links

Official blog
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