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Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. 🪩 👻
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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. 🇵🇸
Finally updating my books-by-me-&-where-to find-them pinned post!

Corpses @sublunary.bsky.social
The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN/Haverthorn)
Disrupted Blue & other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock)
Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (out of print. Will be in my next collection)

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Been delving into this wonderful treasure trove of postcards by the wonderful @vikshirley.bsky.social Available from the excellent @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ‘s Zimzalla.
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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
September 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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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...
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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...
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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!
August 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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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
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Virtual launch is this upcoming Sunday!

Join us for a marathon featuring over a dozen surrealists

bit.ly/surrealabsurd
An anthology of contemporary surrealism? Say less!

Compiling four years of our Surreal-Absurd Sampler series, we have 80+ poets across 370 pages, full of weird poems & micro essays on the surreal

Thrilled to have helped with this tome 📚

More here: www.mercurius.one/books/the-su...
August 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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...
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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...
some author activity: Chang-Richardson, Hausner, Niespodziany, Shirley, Barwin + Reid,
Ellen Chang-Richardson is featured in the "Canadian Poets Series" via Peripety and/or Tronies ; Beatriz Hausner is interviewed over at Touch...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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
July 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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
July 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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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
July 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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”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...
July 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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...
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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...
July 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
”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...
July 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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'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.
July 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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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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
July 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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. 🇵🇸
Finally updating my books-by-me-&-where-to find-them pinned post!

Corpses @sublunary.bsky.social
The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN/Haverthorn)
Disrupted Blue & other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock)
Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (out of print. Will be in my next collection)

1/2
July 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM