"Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image, each housed in its own grid... They represent the double self. We are often an alternate version[s] of ourselves. The truth is often both things or multiple things." - (@photoworks-uk.bsky.social, 2025)

View @vikshirley.bsky.social's new collection as well as many others in the Poets House 30th Showcase Exhibition, currently open!

Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is an incredible cut-up poem from @vikshirley.bsky.social ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️

Jade Cuttle made Josephine Balmer’s ‘Things We Leave Behind’ (Shearsman Books) The Observer Poetry Book of the Month! 👏 Read the full review and Josephine’s poem, ‘Keepsake’, right here: observer.co.uk/culture/book... Photo credit: Jade Cuttle

NOW AVAILABLE: Jane Frank - Gardening on Mars (Shearsman) This is Australian poet Jane Frank's third collection of poems but her first in the UK. It transcends terrestrial boundaries, exploring profound connections between the natural world and human experience….

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...

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...

Our Glasgow double-launch details here! 🥳

An extended review by David Vichnar on some of Ansgar Allen's recents www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen...

…carefully pulling us through the magic of queer kin-making and towards a sense of reciprocity and belonging. Read more and pick up yours here: stewedrhubarb.org/product/all-...

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.

Richard Berengarten—Imagems 3 (Shearsman) “The age both of present-day poetry & of poetry-to-come is irreducibly & inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together w/his Imagems 1 & 2, Richard Berengarten’s third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational…

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…

…has long inspired Scotland’s greatest poets and songwriters. Featuring new work from Jackie Kay, Juana Adcock, William Letford, Josie Giles and others, alongside the classic songs and poems of Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Morgan, Sorley Maclean and Mary Brooksbank…

…this book is a celeb­ration of Maclean, and a call to arms to keep fighting for a world held in common. www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/nows...

…It is a love letter to Black women, all of us whose identities face marginalisation and those who bear witness and speak up, as we continue to collectively raise our voices for liberation. Pick up yours here: stewedrhubarb.org/product/in-w...

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…

That’s a wrap! @mayeroflondon.bsky.social’s Scottish Time/Life @renardpress.com mini-tour is complete! Book signing @ Waterstones Glasgow & Uni of Glasgow’s Creative Conversations in convo w/Nicky Melville. Edinburgh leg: @typewronger.bsky.social chatting & time-travelling w/wonderful Joanna Baker…

Richard Berengarten—Imagems 3 (Shearsman) “The age both of present-day poetry & of poetry-to-come is irreducibly & inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together w/his Imagems 1 & 2, Richard Berengarten’s third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational…

Review time, with two Shearsman titles: ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/t... #poetry @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @disruptedblue.bsky.social

Never entered a poetry competition before so THRILLED to be on the longlist. 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 Check out full longlist and preorder the anthology. renardpress.com/interwoven-a... @renardpress.com

Really delighted to spot @alysdragon.bsky.social on this long list, a lovely press and a great poem.

Been invited to speak at the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social Cabaret Day at the BL in October about my award-winning work on libraries and small presses so cheers to Will @renardpress.com for that. Was looking like i wasn't gonna get a London trip before the end of the year so this is most welcome 🙏

One week today! Next Monday 22nd September, @mayeroflondon.bsky.social is in Scotland for two events! 1pm Glasgow, in conversation w/Nicky Melville @ Uni of Glasgow Creative Conversations, University Chapel. 7.30pm Edinburgh at Typewronger Books, in conversation w/Joanna Baker. Both events are FREE.

Really looking forward to talking to Miranda Ward (author of the wonderful 'Adrift') at @dauntbooks.bsky.social in Summertown, Oxford tomorrow evening (September 16). Our conversation will, no doubt, be pretty wide-ranging. Come on down! dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

virtual event next Saturday for Lit Balm! going to be reading some surrealist poems alongside my Mercurius Magazine editors DM me if you'd like a link ❤️ @vikshirley.bsky.social / @postpran.bsky.social

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…

…Words unravel from deep time to the Anthropocene and our collapsing ecosystems, asking: what is hope in these times? 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 stewedrhubarb.org/product/blue...

From our imprint, Stewed Rhubarb. stewedrhubarb.org

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! 🥹 🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥

Bristol friends, Shearsman book fans, come to East Bristol Books 18 September to hear not me (well, me, too) but the splendid Frances Presley and Andrew Duncan. I have such admiration for them both. Share? www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

… - a space where land, humans and more-than-humans explore patterns of experience in times of reckoning. Rebecca Sharp is a poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow, now based in Fife. Read more and pick up yours here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/long...

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…

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...

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 👇

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)

..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...

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…

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…🌅

…from North East Scottish writer and poet Shane Strachan. The collection looks anew at the city of Aberdeen and the wider North East region's industrial heritage, moving across time and place, from mountains and farmland to city and sea. Pick up yours here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/dwam...

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…

some above/ground press author activity: mclennan, Niespodziany, Jenks, Shirley, Williams, Logan, Kemp-Gee + Young, / @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @meghankempgee.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/some...

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...

Virtual launch is this upcoming Sunday! Join us for a marathon featuring over a dozen surrealists bit.ly/surrealabsurd

Aidan is right - this book knits itself into your bones