Robert Sheppard has published many books of both criticism and poetry. The theoretically focused The Meaning of Form (2014) is available from Palgrave, his episodic history of linguistically innovative poetry, When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry (2011), is from Shearsman. Poetry includes the long poem Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Salt 2008), a selected poems from Shearsman, History or Sleep (2015), his fictional -poet trilogy A Translated Man (Shearsman 2013), Twitters for Lark (Shearsman 2017), and Doubly Stolen Fire (Aquifer 2023). His transpositions of canonical sonnets, the ‘English Strain’ project, is published as The English Strain (Shearsman 2021), Bad Idea (Knives Forks and Spoons 2023) and British Standards (Shearsman, 2024). A book of essays on his work, The Robert Sheppard Companion (Shearsman 2018), outlines these and other activities and publications, including his work in poetics. Sheppard lives in Liverpool and is Emeritus Professor at Edge Hill University.