Been delving into this wonderful treasure trove of postcards by the wonderful @vikshirley.bsky.social Available from the excellent @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ‘s Zimzalla.

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

My third book of photo poetry, Persona Digitalia, is published in November! @photoworks-uk.bsky.social 🍂 📷 “hyper-focused, obsessive play w/fragmentation, time shifts, multiple selves & intensity of life thru colour, aesthetic & lens of the neurodivergent mind.” photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

Beyond thrilled to have been selected for the inaugural P5 series @photoworks-uk.bsky.social in collab w/David Solo! My third photo poetry book is coming soon & will be designed by @janeandjeremy.bsky.social! More details to come & you can read about it here: photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

The Surreal-Absurd. A brilliant anthology from Mercurius Press. Honoured and delighted to be included. Lovely to discover lots of new names, too. Huge thanks to the editors Thomas Helm @postpran.bsky.social , @vikshirley.bsky.social and Ben Niespodziany!

This was a blast✨️ Watch it here: youtu.be/SrXQLfeUsbg Thanks so much to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for hosting and the editorial team of Thomas Helm, @postpran.bsky.social and @vikshirley.bsky.social

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...

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

My third book of photo poetry, Persona Digitalia, is published in November! @photoworks-uk.bsky.social 🍂 📷 “hyper-focused, obsessive play w/fragmentation, time shifts, multiple selves & intensity of life thru colour, aesthetic & lens of the neurodivergent mind.” photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

some above/ground press author activity: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Beatriz Hausner, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin + Monty Reid, / @mreid.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/some...

Did you miss the Easy Tiger virtual launch on Sunday? You can rest easy now, because the full reading is up on YouTube! 🐅🐅🐅 youtu.be/HymLeGr6zVs @garybarwin.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @markleidner.bsky.social @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

Oh, what a night! Had a flippin lovely time at @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh last night, launching This Is How I Fight 💜💜💜 A delight to read with @vikshirley.bsky.social Janette Ayachi & Jane Goldman!✨✨✨ @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Next week Weds 23 July I’m thrilled to be visiting @lighthousebks in Edinburgh! Sharing a poetry stage with fabulous Janette Ayachi @vikshirley.bsky.social @janegoldman.bsky.social ✨💜✨ AND it’s available online too 🌹 lighthousebookshop.com/events/this-... @ninearchespress.bsky.social

🌿✂️🎨 @futuretensebooks.bsky.social / @zacharyschomburg.bsky.social / @markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social bit.ly/easytigerlau...

”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world” Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine. 🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤 www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...

Beyond thrilled to have been selected for the inaugural P5 series @photoworks-uk.bsky.social in collab w/David Solo! My third photo poetry book is coming soon & will be designed by @janeandjeremy.bsky.social! More details to come & you can read about it here: photoworks.org.uk/news/p5-phot...

Spotted in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh yesterday on the 'Bookseller Favourites' shelf @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Time|Life published by @renardpress.com! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 renardpress.com/books/time-l...

”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world” Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine. 🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤 www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea... Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆

'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.

I'm hosting a super cool virtual reading at the end of the month to celebrate Evan's new book! Featuring some of my favorite writers on this planet RSVP for free: bit.ly/easytigerlaunch @markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social / @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

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

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! 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

Not really posting on here anymore/at the moment. Don’t have the energy for all the different platforms. I’m over at the more visual place if anyone needs me/wants to follow. Checking in here now again though & will retweet stuff if tagged. Stop the genocide & free Palestine. 🇵🇸

I got inspiration from AI adverts for loft insulation removal for my piece, “Jean Baudrillard Got Fucked Up at the Foam Party”, up now at @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social, along with lots of brilliant work by @hesterglock.bsky.social @lauradavispoems.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social & more

Thoroughly delighted that my essay "The Time of Suspense and The Time of Suspension" (p.12) has found a home in issue 6 of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social alongside @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social et al. All thanks to Daniele Pantano and editors at TLR www.lincolnreview.org/issue6

In this month’s podcast, John Doran and Luke Turner discuss Alice Coltrane’s 1971 classic of personal, spiritual and musical transformation and transcendence Low Culture Podcast: #AliceColtrane’s Journey In Satchidananda buff.ly/eXf3DDf

The title of @carrieetter.bsky.social’s 'Veer, Oscillate, Rest' (Shearsman) conveys the energy & interest range of these poems, from Trump’s first presidency, to environmental disaster, to Brexit, to the ‘teeming’, lived conjunction of embodiment & consciousness... www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...

My deer! 🦌🦌🦌 Thank you, Ian! Available @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Kristjan Haljak & I will be performing our collaborative piece at the Estonian poetry night of the European Poetry Festival at @poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June. Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤 Line-up so far here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com

I have new visual work-four more from my Kaleidoscopix series-up at @rangermagazine.bsky.social! Thanks to editor David A. Bishop for publishing. It's a double issue, so lots to explore! 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 rangermagazine.net/issue10

Tonight's the night! Calling all sleep-texters, ambient poets, soundscapers & somnambulists! KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER • Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop •Inside Voices & SPAM Press We wrote a dreamy poetry play & will perform it this evening w/live score.

It was a pleasure to review Lee Sumyeong’s Just Like, translated by Colin Leemarshall published by @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in @exactingclam.bsky.social recently. When I posted about this originally, I didn’t realise the review’s online too! You can read here: exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...!

We try to put all reviews online for the use of publishers, critics and readers. See our review archive: www.exactingclam.com/reviews/

It was a pleasure to review Lee Sumyeong’s Just Like, translated by Colin Leemarshall published by @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in @exactingclam.bsky.social recently. When I posted about this originally, I didn’t realise the review’s online too! You can read here: exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...!

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, and reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. Guidelines here: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting

Submissions are open for the Dalloway Prize; send something to our newest contest! $500 Grand Prize, $100 Second Prize, $10 entry. Guest Judged by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social Artwork by @jrostopovich.bsky.social #callforsubmissions #fiction #nonfiction lespritliteraryreview.org/2025-clariss...

The Meadows cherry blossom 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 #edinburgh #themeadows #sakura

The Meadows cherry blossom 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 #edinburgh #themeadows #sakura

Photographer Harry Gruyaert. “There is no story. It’s just a question of shapes and light” www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/a...

Kim Taek Sang Breathing Light 🩵

Loved reading @vikshirley.bsky.social’s Some Deer with my morning coffee. One small book that manages to hold a LOT of deer as well as all the brilliance, weirdness and sadness of the world. Only problem is, my coffee went cold.

Twilight blossom vs. Victorian fountain blossom

“A bowl of gruel and a grand piano fell in love.” 🎹❤️ @vikshirley.bsky.social reading from her collection Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse at our AWP Offsite Reading. The entire reading is available here: youtu.be/T-buPF_9uaA

Twilight blossom vs. Victorian fountain blossom

Eagerly awaiting my copy, still in transit with rest of AWP haul. 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞 @alinaetc.bsky.social

Next up #wavebooks Kate Durbin’s Hoarders. Excited for this after Kate's AWP LA offsite reading. #nextread #katedurbin Wave Books 092

Squirrel watching with Beckett. Him watching squirrels 🐿️ me watching him.