{"product_id":"history-or-sleep-selected-robert-sheppard-9781848613980","title":"History or Sleep - Selected Poems","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Sheppard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848613989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848613980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Robert Sheppard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437112471807,"sku":"9781848613980","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7145a30-e261-4a5d-bff8-e69da1634388.jpg?v=1777159946","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-or-sleep-selected-robert-sheppard-9781848613980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}