Bad Idea - Sheppard, Robert
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There are two ways of seeing this book. One: it is a homage to Michael Drayton's 1619 sonnet sequence, Idea, skilful transpositions into contemporary forms. Two: it tells the story of Brexit, as it passes through the body politic, the undigested cake and eat it of daily life. We read of the peccadillos and pet projects of the Brexiteers, the ineptitude of resistance. Expect comedy and chaos rather than analysis, 'how not to get the blues while singing the blues'. Drayton is both Renaissance man and man of resentment. His worshipped muse Idea is a tragic Scouse idealist caught in a satire…mehr

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There are two ways of seeing this book. One: it is a homage to Michael Drayton's 1619 sonnet sequence, Idea, skilful transpositions into contemporary forms. Two: it tells the story of Brexit, as it passes through the body politic, the undigested cake and eat it of daily life. We read of the peccadillos and pet projects of the Brexiteers, the ineptitude of resistance. Expect comedy and chaos rather than analysis, 'how not to get the blues while singing the blues'. Drayton is both Renaissance man and man of resentment. His worshipped muse Idea is a tragic Scouse idealist caught in a satire nobody can quite control. 'The English Strain' of the sonnet tradition meets the dogging sites of post-Brexit Britain. You've got to laugh. Steve Spence wrote of an earlier part of Sheppard's sonnet project: 'These are sharp, spiky, satirical poems, full of scatological verve and menacing bite, meat to Sheppard's scathing pen, great fun to read, fully appropriate to the dark-age we now seem to be on the brink of living through.' Geraldine Monk in The Robert Sheppard Companion informs us: 'Sheppard's writing is rough, rude, quirky, serious, learned, and never afraid to be humorous. In short it is as irreverent as it is relevant.'
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Autorenporträt
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 a 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.