Robert Sheppard is mainly a poet, whose selected poems,
History or Sleep, appears from Shearsman Books, and who has poetry anthologised in
Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry (OUP) and
Reality Street Book of Sonnets, among others. His short fiction is published as
The Only Life (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), and is found amidst his 2015 autobiographical work,
Words Out of Time, and in several places in his 2016 publication
Unfinish (Veer Publications). He is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, where in 2016 they celebrate ten years of the Edge Hill Prize.
