UEA Creative Writing graduate Robert Sheppard has recently published a new collection of poems, ‘Berlin Bursts’, a critical history of alternative British poetry, ‘When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry’, and a pamphlet with Knives Forks and Spoons Press, ‘The Given’. Robert was in 1979 the first poet to graduate from the UEA Creative Writing MA and is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Programme Leader of the MA Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. He is the editor, with fellow UEA graduate Scott Thurston (1991),
of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
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