A micro-review in the spirit of Sheppard’s own announcement of this chapbook’s publication:

‘Yesterday I micro-launched this micro-book of micro-poems. Don’t worry: nobody was there’.

It is micro – excellently so. Playful and innovative and evocative. A wonderfully symbiotic collection for a Red Ceilings chapbook

I have particularly enjoyed The Working Week poems and am currently macro-liking Haibun: 52 Haiku.

Get it here.

I have read again
Trump’s ‘The Squad’ tweets
from today

and rather than articulate rage
or try to conceptualise
the depths of his inane behaviour

I have instead checked out
the recycling, food waste and rubbish calendar
for a pragmatic catharsis.