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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ragpicker Poetry now feat. new #poems - by Mary O'Malley (@carcanet.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/mary-o-malley/ - by Maggie Hoppel www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/maggie-hoppel/ - & by Stewart Sanderson (@tapsalteerie.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/stewart-sanderson/

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Maggie Hoppel

Three poems by Maggie Hoppel. Maggie is a poet and undergraduate student from Indianapolis, Indiana. She loves quilting, junk journaling, and her dog. She studied in Dublin for a semester in 2025 and ...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thank you @billymills.bsky.social for reviewing four Tapsalteerie titles!

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Our spring titles are in bloom! 🌸🌸🌸 A sneaky peek inside! ‘Anatomy of a Painting’ from Sarah Stewart’s Devour Everything and extract from ‘Lower jawbone of Arctic lemming’ in Jim Carruth’s novel-in-verse Knockan. Order your copies of both here: www.tapsalteerie.co.uk

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

These two beauties came out in autumn but can still be enjoyed in spring. Order now to enjoy reading under the cherry blossom. 🌸 'Alba, or Scotland, No Black Coffee Will Help' from @taylor-strickland.bsky.social’s Dwell Time and 'The Tower of Babel' from Stewart Sanderson’s Weathershaker pictured…

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Seein as hou it's Warld Poyetry Day the day A thocht A'd skair wi youse a poyum in Scots that A'm fair intae the noo. It's cried Nae Flooers by Ann McKinnon fae the quair o the same name ( @tapsalteerie.bsky.social, 2015) 1/2 #WorldPoetryDay #WorldPoetryDay2026

The image shows the text of the poem Nae Flooers by Ann McKinnon. The full text is not in the alt text as I don't have permission from the poet to share the poem in the image, never mind here, in alt text that can no doubt be crawled by a bot and used to train LLMs. Sorry!

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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….

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/02/2026

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...

POETRY WITH TAPSALTEERIE
celebrating new books from
SARAH STEWART | TAYLOR STRICKLAND | STEWART SANDERSON

Book covers shown:
DWELL TIME, by Taylor Strickland
DEVOUR EVERYTHING, by Sarah Stewart
WEATHER SHAKER, by Stewart Sanderson

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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...

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Fran Moldaschl @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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.

The cover for BLOODSONGS by Mae Diansangu

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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…

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our Glasgow double-launch details here! 🥳

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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, …

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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…

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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…

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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…

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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! 🥹 🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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…

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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...

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The Scots Language Awards will be on Saturday 6th September in Dundee. Vote using the form below or click here. Voting will end Sunday 31st August at midnight. Create your own user feedback survey

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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…

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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...

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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…🌅

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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…

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

..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...

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Once I Carried Three Crows by Rachel Plummer - Tapsalteerie

'Once I Carried Three Crows' is the highly anticipated new poetry collection from Edinburgh-based poet & writer Rachel Plummer

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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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)

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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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 👇

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Applications for the New Writers Awards are now open!

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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.

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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...

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Splenectomy by Eloise Birtwhistle

“a young poet of considerable potential.” – John Glenday

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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! 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

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