Charms and Glitter is a new work by fellow UEA alumni, the poet Robert Sheppard and the photographer Trev Eales, and is published by Knives, Forks and Spoons. It comprises Robert’s poetry alongside 62 photographs by Trev of bands on stage at music festivals. In 1979 Robert became the first poet to graduate from the UEA Creative Writing MA. A prolific poet, he subsequently became Professor of Creative Writing and Programme Leader of the MA Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. He was the editor, with fellow UEA graduate Scott Thurston (1991), of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and is the co-editor of Atlantic Drift. His selected poems, History or Sleep, is published Shearsman, along with The Robert Sheppard Companion, edited by James Byrne and Christopher Madden.
Charms and Glitter by Robert Sheppard and Trev Eales
