{"product_id":"history-or-sleep-selected-poems-paperback","title":"History or Sleep - Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Sheppard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Sheppard's selection draws on every book of his poetry since \u003cem\u003eReturns\u003c\/em\u003e of 1985 through to \u003cem\u003eWords Out of Time\u003c\/em\u003e of 2015, and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his work and their restlessly changing forms. Ian Davidson in \u003cem\u003ePoetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e called Sheppard's \u003cem\u003eComplete Twentieth Century Blues\u003c\/em\u003e 'a major poem of serious intent'. Of his recent Shearsman collections, Alan Baker in Litter called \u003cem\u003eWarrant Error\u003c\/em\u003e, 'political poetry of the first order'; Ben Hickman, in PN Review, wrote 'Berlin Bursts perhaps makes one of the biggest claims for the inherent politics of language and art in recent British poetry.' \u003cem\u003eA Translated Man\u003c\/em\u003e, a sequence of 'fictional poems', was described by Tom Jenks in \u003cem\u003eTears in the Fence\u003c\/em\u003e, as 'a compendious work, a vademecum for innovative writing' and as 'a book which, whilst in keeping stylistically and thematically with Sheppard's other work, exhibits a degree of playfulness not always so obvious there... It is, above all, a deeply pleasurable work.' Kelvin Corcoran wrote about \u003cem\u003eWords Out of Time\u003c\/em\u003e: 'There you are characteristically free of flash or reserve and it increases the sum of what can be written about, I think. And it's funny.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933694902493,"sku":"9781848613980","price":27.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/zfTNJf5UKw9781848613980.webp?v=1779065612","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/history-or-sleep-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}