Mentee Sarah Stewart will be launching her debut in Edinburgh next month: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @tapsalteerie.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

V glad to have a poem in the latest issue of Gutter! 🤩

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

Next Thursday 26th February at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street we launch Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth’s novel-in-verse Knockan! Please join us in this celebration and book your tickets via the link below. We look forward to seeing you there! 🎉🎉🎉 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

And now for a new book. Just out here, although we don't actually have physical copies yet, is Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems, all 738-pages, in both paperback and hardcover editions. In the UK we can supply from stock (once we have some, which will be next week.) www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...

This time last year I discovered Kenny Knight and read his previous with @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, warming to his candid realism and delightful imaginative tangents. The poetry here reflects even more on experiences of isolation, loss and constraint while escaping in glorious other worlds

Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.social’s Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books. In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….

Discover books as art - walking, making, thinking in pages - in a recent blog post and in a wonderful exhibition of #ArtistsBooks from the collections of the #ArtAndDesignLibrary. The exhibition is on show Edinburgh Central Library until 28 February - don't miss it! zurl.co/XdjsM

Dripping with HONEY🍯, this episode features Ukrainian Honey Cake & we’ve been busy bees combing books for honey references, including poems by Victoria Adukwei Bulley & SA Whitley & Andrew Meehan's novel Best Friends. Link to listen in bio, available wherever you listen to your podcasts 💌🍽️✌🏻🍯

Absolutely delighted to have a piece of my work grace the front cover of this beauty "Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics" ed. @brunoministro.bsky.social Hardback, April2026, Edinburgh University Press. Thank you Bruno 🙏 : edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transfo...

Order here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/dwel...

In taking us from the US to Scotland to Portugal, Strickland interrogates this central notion, along with ideas of non-place and environment, to explore our contemporary experience of love, language, technology, and spirituality. 2/3

Dwell Time, the full-length debut collection from award-winning poet Taylor Strickland, begins from the idea that ‘dwelling’ requires both place and the experience of ‘being-in-the-world’. 1/3 @taylor-strickland.bsky.social

Poetry with Tapsalteerie 5 March @lighthousebks.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Tickets £4 Join Sarah Stewart, @taylor-strickland.bsky.social & Stewart Sanderson for an evening of #poetry & discussion about their new collections from @tapsalteerie.bsky.social lighthousebookshop.com/events/tapsa...

… Ranging from New York to small-town Aberdeenshire, from pop culture to Norse Valkyries, and wrestling with issues of motherhood, memory and loss, Sarah Stewart's deftly illuminating debut collection reminds us that as humans "we are animals / and our bodies remember things." …

We are excited to announce that preorders for Sarah Stewart's Devour Everything are open! *Order now for delivery on or around the publication date of 01 March 2026* Devour Everything is a love letter to heroic failure, to creation in the face of destruction, to the mundane made sacred….

Hello lovely book people. Bluemoose will be attending The London Book Fair for the first time with our own piece of Indy Prime Real Estate - And a chair. STAND NUMBER: 6G28 From Hebden Bridge to Hollywood via Heckmondwike. Marvelous! @thebookseller.com

Now available from Shearsman: Attila József - The Song of the Cosmos: Selected Poems, translated from Hungarian by Ágnes Lehóczky & Adam Piette. Bilingual edition. Intros & afterwords by Ágnes Lehóczky, George Szirtes, György Tverdota, Aranka Kemény & Adam Piette. Illustrations by György Békeffi. ….

“It’s Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing” — my chapter in “Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics" ed. @brunoministro.bsky.social April2026, Edinburgh University Press edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transfo...

#GetKeshed in Glasgae.

We’re back! Our first new episode for the year is out Tuesday & every week (hopefully 🤞🏻) for the rest of 2026. We’re hyped for this year’s LTEB; we’re hoping we’ve found the right balance within the format now & can’t wait to listen & come to the live events we’re planning. Colin & Claire xoxo ❤️📖🍽️✌🏻

New Year New Look for LTEB! Our 1st episode of 2026 is RHUBARB all the way as we discuss gorgeous rhubarb tinged texts by Jennifer Moxley and Annie Johnson. Links to listen in bio, but available wherever you listen to your podcasts 🎧🍽️✌🏻📚 …& what’s your favourite rhubarby dish?

Our most lenticular episode to date is out now, LENTIL SOUP 🥣 We discuss poetry by both Zharad & Maria Sledmere, & an extract from a short story by David Toulmin. Link in bio to listen, but available wherever you listen to your podcasts 🍽️❤️✌🏻 What’s your secret to a good bowl of lentil soup?🧐

'Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy' (2022). Published to mark the centenary of the publication of Ulysses on 2/2/22. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...

FINAL CALL FOR KESHED ONLINE LAUNCH TOMORROW. Anyone wants adding to the zoom invite list for the event online with @davidcollard.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social pls email [email protected] ASAP. I'm gonna check it one more time after work so get em in quick if you've not got one yet.

Reading Stu Hennigan's KESHED and feel like I've been beaten up outside a flat-roofed pub, which is a GOOD THING in a literary landscape dominated by tastefully buttoned-up bougie fretting. Looking forward to the online launch on Thursday with @stuhennigan.bsky.social & @regretteruane.bsky.social

The upcoming St Bridget's holiday seems like a good pretext for reminding you of my blog anthology of 101 Irish women poets: ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/category/iri...

The papers from the 2025 Glasgow conference on Jerome Rothenberg are all now published in English Studies in Latin America, here: ojs.uc.cl/index.php/es....

New review up: ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/r... @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social @luaz.bsky.social @jordandavis.bsky.social @thetenderbetween.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social #poetry

"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…