Oliver Sheppard
@oliver_sheppard
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Author of Thirteen Nocturnes & The Funeral Colony. Practitioner of the language arts. Writer at https://t.co/8rSHpytCi5 &c. Not the Irish sculptor. Fáilte!
Dallas, TX
Joined March 2016
My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, can be bought here: TheFuneralColony[dot]com 330 page, 84+ poemS. If you want to wait until Tues, July 28, I’ll have copies available on me to buy, can sign, etc., and you can buy one off me directly then. #thefuneralcolony
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Just arrived. Let’s get started and see if it lives up to the hype. #Pynchon #shadowticket #shadowticketpynchon #thomaspynchon
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This was a great night. 7 years ago at Sundown at Granada in Dallas, Texas. Youth DJing. Jaz and Geordie and Big Paul hanging out like locals. Spoke with all of them and it was wonderful. Great memories from a brilliant band we’ll never see play live again. Dancing to music
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Happy 71st bday today—Tuesday Sept 16–to #ColinNewman of #Wire. I forget who I got this image from. I think it was from DJ Joey Seeman.🩶
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Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.” #weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
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__________________ THE FUNERAL COLONY (2025) is available from: https://t.co/wXZFslte4t See https://t.co/jarwfe3MOl as well.
thefuneralcolony.com
Oliver Sheppard was born in Nashville, Tennessee and currently writes and lives in Texas. Sheppard's Thirteen Nocturnes collection of poetry, published in 2018, was a Finalist
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My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, is out now. Link to purchase in comments. My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured. Praise for my previous collection of verse, THIRTEEN NOCTURNES: “Oliver Sheppard is a
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A quote from Marcus Manilius’ ASTRONOMICON (ca 40 CE) that I used as an epigraph in my first poetry collection, 2017’s DESTRUCTION: TEXT I (from which this picture is taken). Theory is that #HPLovecraft got the idea for his #NECRONOMICON from Manilius’ work. #astronomicon
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Happy Birthday today, Sept 10th, to Georges Bataille. I found this copy of his LITERATURE & EVIL at Dallas’ Dolly Python store. . . #georgesbataille #thestoryoftheeye #literatureandevil #acephalé
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From my new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY. It can be purchased here: https://t.co/4TdqdJpNTq
#thefuneralcolony #mywork #darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdpoems #weirdpoetry #horrorpoetry #horrorpoems #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems #gothicpoetry #oliversheppard
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Happy belated 64th Birthday to cosmic horror schizo-punk outsider artist NICK BLINKO. A martian among men. (In the best way.) His bday was yesterday, September 4th, 2025.. 🎂 🖤 I’ll probably give the ARCHAIC (2004) EP a spin today. That EP is 21 years old as of last year!
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New Substack piece about Alfred Lichtenstein's more ghoulish poems. Includes his "The Fog," which treads similar thematic territory to Stephen King, John Carpenter, and John Herbert's fog/mist-themed stuff. In 1931, Walter Benjamin wrote that Lichtenstein's poetry was tantamount
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Brigitte Helm on the set of the movie Metropolis 1927
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Happy Birthday today, August 30, to Mary Shelley. "The earth is a tomb, the gaudy sky a vault, we but walking corpses." —Mary Shelley, "On Ghosts" (1824) #MaryShelley
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Recently came across (and have here translated) this prescient German #scifi short story about AI and replicants, from the 1910s! “Automaton,” by Hermann Kasack from 1916, broaches the idea of android “duplicates” superseding mankind. This may be its first appearance in English
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I wrote “Entropy Engine” in early 2024. It’s one of 84 new poems in #TheFuneralColony. “’The heavens roll open (here, the membrane splits) / In the operating theater of infinity— / But heaven was become a morgue of broken theorems. / God’s tumors bloom like black orchids, / And
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JUST NOW on my Substack: Georg Trakl’s nightmare-meditation on the dark spirit(s) of Autumn. From Summer’s slow death to Autumn’s crisp twilight—to the apocalypse of man in November’s grey borderland, Trakl’s verse is “haunted by the ‘cold radiance’ of death,” to quote a review.
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