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Leafe Press
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Leafe Press was launched at a reading in Nottingham in 2000 and has published a wide range of poetry. Editor: Alan Baker
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"Baker interlaces symbols across multiple frames of reference, so that sparrows fly through St. Bede’s banquet hall, through an Amazon warehouse, into the psalmist’s dreams..."

Jack Martell's well-informed review of 'A Book of Psalms':

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August 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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"The range of József’s poetry is impressive. “By the Danube” is a magnificent meditation on mortality, fate and the common lot of humanity."

My review of "The Song of the Cosmos", Selected Poems of Attila József, pub. @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social:

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May 25, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Six months ago this bad girl erupted into the surreal (or at least arrived on my doorstep). robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...
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May 11, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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queercomrades.bsky.social
Looking forward to performing my poetry at the European Poetry Festival at Nottingham Contemporary on 6 June. Free event and all welcome! Register here www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham
May 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Rupert Loydell reviews “A Book of Psalms” by Alan Baker and “Saints of Little Faith” by Megan Pinto, pub @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social and the 87press:

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May 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Litter reviews “Sussex Coils and Loops” by Paul Holman, pub. Scarlet Imprint:

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May 7, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Here's my current book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Here's the next one: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/05/trev....
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...
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May 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Nottingham people - you may wish to come to this next Saturday. Launching books by Linda Kemp and @dradny.bsky.social :

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Linda Kemp & Andrew Taylor Poetry Book Launch with Leafe Press - Bonington Gallery
Join us at Bonington Gallery for the launch of two new poetry books — 'The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun' by Linda Kemp and 'State Honey' by Andrew Taylor, both published by Leafe...
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May 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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From ancient deities to modern-day poets, queer life has shaped Chinese culture for centuries. In this new episode of our 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China podcast, Yangyang sits down with Hongwei Bao and Darius Longarino to explore queer Chinese activism and literature.
May 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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dradny.bsky.social
Looking forward to launching my new @leafepress.bsky.social collection alongside Linda Kemp at The Bonington Galley in Nottingham on Sat May 9th 11-1. Free admission and free coffee and pastries. RSVP at boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...
April 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Thanks to Dr Si Long Chan for this great conversation about poetry, queerness and East Asian identity, and to @leafepress.bsky.social Litter Magazine for publishing it. www.littermagazine.org/2026/04/inte...
Interview with poet, playwright and queer activist Hongwei Bao
Queer Asian Poetics: A Conversation with Hongwei Bao by Si Long Chan In 2024, at the inaugural Queer Asian Poets e vent hosted by East...
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April 20, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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A first peep at HOLME FELL, a collaboration between Trev Eales (photographer) and myself: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/03/trev...
Trev Eales and Robert Sheppard HOLME FELL: a Sample of Landscapes Number One
Holme Fell: A Sample of Landscapes is the title of a collaboration between myself and Trev Eales, based on, coming out of, springboarding fr...
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March 18, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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"This experience of really seeing something, of really understanding something, this artifice, this made-up thing, stayed with me."

Kelvin Corcoran on first encountering John Keats and Basil Bunting:

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March 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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"In the night, patient night, wait until rising in the ash of the ashen sun."

New poetry by Colin Campbell Robinson:

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Colin Campbell Robinson - Two Poems
Colin Campbell Robinson from Songs of the Dead                                morbido e lento 3. In the night, patient night, wait until ris...
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March 18, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...
February 28, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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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-...
Tributes to Ric Hool included in A Landscape Pulsing with Life (one from me)
I’m pleased to say a poem of mine finds its humble place in A Landscape Pulsing with Life: Some tributes to the life and work of Ric Hool , ...
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February 25, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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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....
One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83
I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that I’ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or – more recently – an anno...
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February 25, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems... @leafepress.bsky.social @anthropocenempg.bsky.social Enjoying these new poems by Alan Baker in the wonderful Anthropocene
2 poems by Alan Baker
PSALM 30 I watch from cheap cafes every morning and nightSlush in the streets, traffic and men cleaning windscreens at lightsTent cities in the underpass, lichen uncheckedNeither fungus nor plant defo...
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February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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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."

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State Honey - Andrew Taylor
State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...
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February 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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@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.

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My Writing Life: Ian Seed
"I wish someone had told me about the importance of being part of a community... I had too many pseudo-romantic ideas about poets in garrets."
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January 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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"...a virtual reality version of a worldwide journey"

Steve Spence reviews “Faunistics - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas:

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Review - "Faunistics - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations" by R.C. Thomas
Steve Spence “Faunistics  - a collection of wild haiku and illustrations” by R.C. Thomas, pub.  R.C. Thomas Things 2024. 135pp. £9.99   ...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Andrew Duncan reviews “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. @prototypepubs.bsky.social:

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Review - "Silk Work" by Imogen Cassells
Andrew Duncan A Lover’s Prayer “Silk Work “ by Imogen Cassels, pub. Prototype Publishing. 2025. 69 pp., £12.99 If we start with the textile,...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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"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

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Review - "Drawn" by Peter Hughes
Ian Brinton "Drawn" by Peter Hughes, pub. Broken Sleep. 78pp. £10.99 The back cover of Peter Hughes’s new selection of poems and drawings...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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"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:

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Review - "Apropos Paradise Square" by Ágnes Lehóczky
Alan Baker “Apropos Paradise Square: On a Literature of Consolation” by Ágnes Lehóczky , pub. Pamenar Press. 109pp. £15.00 The book contai...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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"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:

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Review - “The Moral Theology of the Devil/Clothed with the Sun” by Linda Kemp
Simon Collings “The Moral Theology of the Devil/Clothed with the Sun” by Linda Kemp, pub. Leafe Press. 37pp. £9.00 Linda Kemp’s pamphlet-l...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM