On Friday (14th November) 18:30 it is the Edinburgh Tapsalteerie double-launch of Stewart Sanderson’s Weathershaker & Taylor Strickland’s Dwell Time, chaired by Medha Singh. Join us for gorgeous evening of poetry & books at the Fruitmarket! Link to book here: www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...

Next is BLOODSONGS by @vavapoetry.bsky.social published by @tapsalteerie.bsky.social This one floored me. As an Aberdeenshire kid it felt like coming home. Don't be put off by the Doric. It's part of what makes this amazing & you'll understand more than you fear even if you're not from the shire.

Pre-orders for Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson are OPEN! Weathershaker begins with meanings lost, recovered & imagined. Digging into the material & textual record through place names, fictional histories, translations & fragmentary texts, Sanderson's second full-length collection…

Our Glasgow double-launch details here! 🥳

Edinburgh Double Book Launch: Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson & Dwell Time by Taylor Strickland. Celebrate the publication of Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson & Dwell Time by Taylor Strickland, hosted by Medha Singh & featuring readings from the poets. 🥳 www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...

@tapsalteerie.bsky.social are hosting an exciting launch for the publication of Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson and Dwell Time by Taylor Strickland in Glasgow: 28th October at 7pm at The Alchemy Experiment. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...

All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024) From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …

Glad to have a short poem in this anthology for John Maclean, edited by Henry Bell and Joey Simons.

Now's The Day, Now's The Hour: Poems for John Maclean (2023) Edited by Henry Bell & Joey Simons, this anthology collects poems & songs in tribute to the revolutionary life and legacy of John Maclean (1879-1923) on the centenary of his death. Maclean's legacy, & the tragedy of his martyrdom…

In Wolf's Skin (2024) by Titilayo Farukuoye Contemplating power & heritage, In Wolf's Skin offers a means to articulate some realities of our colonial legacies. This pamphlet is a memorandum of strength, fierceness & love, speaking to the importance of standing for a world you want to live in…

Now open for pre-order: Blue: A Lament for the Sea by Liz MacWhirter. 🌊 Blue: a lament for the sea is one woman's journey through the interstices of land & sea, grief & love. The medieval Gaelic myth of the Isle of lona escaping an apocalyptic flood infuses. MacWhirter's contemporary lyric epic…

Big & joyous news: Mae Diansangu's Bloodsongs has been longlisted for the Poetry Debut prize in the Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎉 Congratulations, Mae! 👏 @vavapoetry.bsky.social We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹 🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥

Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp “an extraorinary, utterly unique collection…an antidote to the Anthopocene” – John Glenday *Longlisted for Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of Year 2024.* When so much of moving forward includes looking back, the poems in Long Field Loop make space for making amends…

Jason just shared this and it pretty much says everything I feel about the situation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BLOODSONGS has been nominated for Scots Book of The Year(!) The public decides the winner, but you don't need to live in Scotland to vote - just follow the link 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖 projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...

Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…

Love & Other Cancers by Olivia Thomakos. Deeply personal—yet universally resonant—this book deftly exploring the struggles of life journeys as we discover ourselves & navigate familial, friendly, & romantic relationships through seasons of illness, loss, & change. stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...

BUY MY BLOODY BOOK. Shifting between English and North-East Scots, BLOODSONGS, is an ode to matters of the blood: queer carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth and how history is felt in the body🩸 www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/bloo...

Love & Other Cancers by Olivia Thomakos. Deeply personal—yet universally resonant—this book deftly exploring the struggles of life journeys as we discover ourselves & navigate familial, friendly, & romantic relationships through seasons of illness, loss, & change. stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...

Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…

sun-drunk by lan Macartney (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024). These are poems drunk not just on the sun, but on every emotion which whirs underneath its glow—even in the bright light of winter months. Some of these poems were commissioned for stage, some for screen(s), & others have never appeared before…🌅

sun-drunk by lan Macartney (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024). These are poems drunk not just on the sun, but on every emotion which whirs underneath its glow—even in the bright light of winter months. Some of these poems were commissioned for stage, some for screen(s), & others have never appeared before…🌅

Once I Carried Three Crows (2024) by Rachel Plummer. Taking their cue from natural world, science & science-fiction, the vivid & surreal poems of Once I Carried Three Crows present contemporary myths born from experiences such as the process of ageing, disability, intergenerational relationships…

..intergenerational relationships, body image & sexuality. Here we find stories of the woman who married the North Sea, of ghosthouses & birdhouses, of Iris, the first granny in space, & of the worm that eats memories along with 'half a glass/of iced Chianti. www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/once...

Awards are available in the following categories: 📖 Fiction and narrative non-fiction 📖 Poetry 📖 Spoken word 📖 Children's and young adult fiction 📖 Scots 📖 Gaelic (in partnership with @leughleabhar.bsky.social) 📖 The Kavya Prize (a dedicated award support an emerging writer of colour)

Applications for the New Writers Awards 2026 are now OPEN! ✍ The New Writers Awards is an annual awards programme supporting individuals from across Scotland committed to developing their writing. Find out more and apply 👇

Once I Carried Three Crows (2024) by Rachel Plummer. Taking their cue from natural world, science & science-fiction, the vivid & surreal poems of Once I Carried Three Crows present contemporary myths born from experiences such as the process of ageing, disability, intergenerational relationships…

Our poet Mae Diansangu was amongst the writers that withdrew their books from the Polari Prize award after the inclusion of a self-described terf on the longlist & the Polari's mealymouthed response to the inevitable pushback. We fully supported Mae & her decision! Polari have now paused the prize.

Poem by Jeda Pearl from Hunter's Voices (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024) edited by Alan Riach. Hunter’s Voices is an anthology of poems responding to paintings and objects in the gallery and museums of the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow… Read more here: stewedrhubarb.org/product/hunt...

Huge thanks to Stuart Kelly for this review of Eloise Birtwhistle in The Scotsman! @scotsman.com 🙏🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨✨🙏🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨✨ stewedrhubarb.org/product/sple... www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu Shifting between English and North-east Scots, Bloodsongs is an ode to matters of the blood: queer carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth; and how history is felt in the body... Keep reading and order your copy here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/bloo...

Endless Blue by Laura T. Fyfe From our Stewed Rhubarb imprint Charged w/sensuality, spirituality & sass, Endless Blue is a vivid exploration of the space between sky & water, the horizon line between the ephemeral & the eternal… Read more & pick up yours here: stewedrhubarb.org/product/endl...

From Reflections Glimmer (2025)—poems exploring ekphrasis showcasing work of three poets, Jane Burn, Maria Schiza & Rosamund Taylor, who each bring their unique perspective to the art of ekphrastic poetry. Rosamund’s ‘World-Renowned Cellist, Yo-Yo Ma’ pictured. www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/refl...

From Eloise Birtwhistle’s Splenectomy published by Stewed Rhubarb, our sibling press! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Eloise Birtwhistle's debut pamphlet puts the body and its histories under a scrutinizing lens in a study of our physical and mental agency... 1/2

This extended poem weaves ancient with modern; clinical with natural; human with non-human; deep sea with air. Using wonder, precision, and a distinct intimacy, Splenectomy renders blood and bile anew. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 2/2 stewedrhubarb.org/product/sple...

Big things ahead for Tapsalteerie and our imprint Stewed Rhubarb! We’ve recruited @disruptedblue.bsky.social to help us get the word out! Expect more from our social media pages and from Disrupted Blue’s. We’ve got a back catalogue to celebrate as well as exciting projects ahead! 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

Our poet Mae Diansangu was amongst the writers that withdrew their books from the Polari Prize award after the inclusion of a self-described terf on the longlist & the Polari's mealymouthed response to the inevitable pushback. We fully supported Mae & her decision! Polari have now paused the prize.

Poem by Jeda Pearl from Hunter's Voices (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024) edited by Alan Riach. Hunter’s Voices is an anthology of poems responding to paintings and objects in the gallery and museums of the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow… Read more here: stewedrhubarb.org/product/hunt...

We are THRILLED to announce that Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu has been longlisted for the 2025 Polari First Book Prize! Congratulations Mae! Thank you judges! 🥳🙏🎉 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ www.polarisalon.com/polari-prize...

Come join us on Monday 11th August at Typewronger Books! Eloise Birtwhistle will be reading from her new collection Splenectomy—published by our imprint Stewed Rhubard—as part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe! The event will be chaired by our own Charlie Roy. 📚📚📚 www.eventbrite.com/e/splenectom...

Huge thanks to Stuart Kelly for this review of Eloise Birtwhistle in The Scotsman! @scotsman.com 🙏🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨✨🙏🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨✨ stewedrhubarb.org/product/sple... www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu Shifting between English and North-east Scots, Bloodsongs is an ode to matters of the blood: queer carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth; and how history is felt in the body... Keep reading and order your copy here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/bloo...

Endless Blue by Laura T. Fyfe From our Stewed Rhubarb imprint Charged w/sensuality, spirituality & sass, Endless Blue is a vivid exploration of the space between sky & water, the horizon line between the ephemeral & the eternal… Read more & pick up yours here: stewedrhubarb.org/product/endl...

From Reflections Glimmer (2025)—poems exploring ekphrasis showcasing work of three poets, Jane Burn, Maria Schiza & Rosamund Taylor, who each bring their unique perspective to the art of ekphrastic poetry. Rosamund’s ‘World-Renowned Cellist, Yo-Yo Ma’ pictured. www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/refl...

'Reading Edwin Morgan to French Hyperpop' from languishing, cute by lan Macartney & Maria Sledmere. languishing, cute presents a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon into a maximalist ‘high femme goth surrealism’ via hyperpop, Celtic futurism & digital culture.

From Eloise Birtwhistle’s Splenectomy published by Stewed Rhubarb, our sibling press! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Eloise Birtwhistle's debut pamphlet puts the body and its histories under a scrutinizing lens in a study of our physical and mental agency... 1/2

'Reading Edwin Morgan to French Hyperpop' from languishing, cute by lan Macartney & Maria Sledmere. languishing, cute presents a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon into a maximalist ‘high femme goth surrealism’ via hyperpop, Celtic futurism & digital culture.

Disrupted Blue is excited to now be working w/Scottish press @tapsalteerie.bsky.social & their imprint Stewed Rhubarb! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳 We'll be sharing lots from their books & pamphlets soon, but in meantime, you can browse the already impressive back catalogue of this up & coming press! www.tapsalteerie.co.uk