Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity
@disruptedblue.bsky.social
Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
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….
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….
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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….
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….
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…
September 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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…
“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…
September 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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…
“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…
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.
September 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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.
Disrupted Blue is still on holiday, but we’re quickly popping on here because the amazing Caitlin O’Ryan is at Edinburgh Book Festival next Tuesday 19th in convo
with Holly McNish, & we don’t want you to miss it!
We’re very happy to be working with Bristol press Burning Eye!
More from us soon. 💙
with Holly McNish, & we don’t want you to miss it!
We’re very happy to be working with Bristol press Burning Eye!
More from us soon. 💙
August 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Disrupted Blue is still on holiday, but we’re quickly popping on here because the amazing Caitlin O’Ryan is at Edinburgh Book Festival next Tuesday 19th in convo
with Holly McNish, & we don’t want you to miss it!
We’re very happy to be working with Bristol press Burning Eye!
More from us soon. 💙
with Holly McNish, & we don’t want you to miss it!
We’re very happy to be working with Bristol press Burning Eye!
More from us soon. 💙
More fantastic news for Shearsman Books! Congratulations to Ruth Wiggins for making it onto the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize @englishassociation.bsky.social longlist with The Lost Book of Barkynge! 🥳
www.shearsman.com/store/Ruth-W...
www.shearsman.com/store/Ruth-W...
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
More fantastic news for Shearsman Books! Congratulations to Ruth Wiggins for making it onto the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize @englishassociation.bsky.social longlist with The Lost Book of Barkynge! 🥳
www.shearsman.com/store/Ruth-W...
www.shearsman.com/store/Ruth-W...
Well, here's big news. The Laurel Prize shortlist has just been announced & Shearsman have three of the five shortlisted titles! Congratulations @jrcarpenter.bsky.social, Eliza O'Toole & Carol Watts! Thanks to judges & congratulations also to the other two finalists.🌿
laurelprize.com/2025-finalis...
laurelprize.com/2025-finalis...
August 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Well, here's big news. The Laurel Prize shortlist has just been announced & Shearsman have three of the five shortlisted titles! Congratulations @jrcarpenter.bsky.social, Eliza O'Toole & Carol Watts! Thanks to judges & congratulations also to the other two finalists.🌿
laurelprize.com/2025-finalis...
laurelprize.com/2025-finalis...
Now available! GB Clarkson’s Singletary
(Shearsman)
“The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat…” Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive…
Keep reading and pick up your copy here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Gerald...
(Shearsman)
“The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat…” Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive…
Keep reading and pick up your copy here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Gerald...
August 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Now available! GB Clarkson’s Singletary
(Shearsman)
“The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat…” Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive…
Keep reading and pick up your copy here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Gerald...
(Shearsman)
“The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat…” Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive…
Keep reading and pick up your copy here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Gerald...
Jennifer Morag Henderson's Jofrid Gunn (Shearsman) is now available & launches Sat 9th August, 2pm, Waterstones Inverness. Jofrid Gunn tells the story of a woman who came from the Faroe Islands in 16th century to marry into the Clan Gunn, in the north of Scotland…
www.shearsman.com/store/Jennif...
www.shearsman.com/store/Jennif...
July 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Jennifer Morag Henderson's Jofrid Gunn (Shearsman) is now available & launches Sat 9th August, 2pm, Waterstones Inverness. Jofrid Gunn tells the story of a woman who came from the Faroe Islands in 16th century to marry into the Clan Gunn, in the north of Scotland…
www.shearsman.com/store/Jennif...
www.shearsman.com/store/Jennif...
Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: July 22, 2025 - LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro, tr. Tony Frazer!
#shearsman 🙏✨
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
#shearsman 🙏✨
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
July 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: July 22, 2025 - LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro, tr. Tony Frazer!
#shearsman 🙏✨
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
#shearsman 🙏✨
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
“Jeremy Reed is clearly one of the country’s finest contemporary poets […] It’s hardly a surprise that [he] became J.G. Ballard’s favourite poet as his poetry became more dystopian & also glamorous in its dark celebration.”
—Steve Spence in Stride!
stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
—Steve Spence in Stride!
stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Jeremy Reed is clearly one of the country’s finest contemporary poets […] It’s hardly a surprise that [he] became J.G. Ballard’s favourite poet as his poetry became more dystopian & also glamorous in its dark celebration.”
—Steve Spence in Stride!
stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
—Steve Spence in Stride!
stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Spotted in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh yesterday on the 'Bookseller Favourites' shelf @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Time|Life published by @renardpress.com!
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July 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Spotted in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh yesterday on the 'Bookseller Favourites' shelf @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Time|Life published by @renardpress.com!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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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
& 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
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
& 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
Trevor Joyce - WHAT'S IN STORE (Shearsman) is at once a Borgesian guide to the history, customs and scientific discourse of an unknown country, and an Oulipian textual machine, whose workings by turns terrify and exalt...
Continue reading and pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Trevor...
Continue reading and pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Trevor...
July 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Trevor Joyce - WHAT'S IN STORE (Shearsman) is at once a Borgesian guide to the history, customs and scientific discourse of an unknown country, and an Oulipian textual machine, whose workings by turns terrify and exalt...
Continue reading and pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Trevor...
Continue reading and pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Trevor...
Marina Tsvetaeva - Roland's Horn: Poems 1917–1925, tr. Christopher Whyte.
The years between the twin revolutions of 1917 & Tsvetaeva’s departure end of April 1922, together w/her daughter Alya, for Berlin & then Prague were the most productive of her career…
www.shearsman.com/store/Marina...
The years between the twin revolutions of 1917 & Tsvetaeva’s departure end of April 1922, together w/her daughter Alya, for Berlin & then Prague were the most productive of her career…
www.shearsman.com/store/Marina...
July 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Marina Tsvetaeva - Roland's Horn: Poems 1917–1925, tr. Christopher Whyte.
The years between the twin revolutions of 1917 & Tsvetaeva’s departure end of April 1922, together w/her daughter Alya, for Berlin & then Prague were the most productive of her career…
www.shearsman.com/store/Marina...
The years between the twin revolutions of 1917 & Tsvetaeva’s departure end of April 1922, together w/her daughter Alya, for Berlin & then Prague were the most productive of her career…
www.shearsman.com/store/Marina...
Now available: Gustaf Sobin - Uncollected Poems
(Shearsman Library Vol. 22)
Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 2010, but left out work which had been collected in special limited editions...
Continue reading & pick up your copy here:
💙💙💙
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...
(Shearsman Library Vol. 22)
Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 2010, but left out work which had been collected in special limited editions...
Continue reading & pick up your copy here:
💙💙💙
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...
June 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Now available: Gustaf Sobin - Uncollected Poems
(Shearsman Library Vol. 22)
Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 2010, but left out work which had been collected in special limited editions...
Continue reading & pick up your copy here:
💙💙💙
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...
(Shearsman Library Vol. 22)
Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 2010, but left out work which had been collected in special limited editions...
Continue reading & pick up your copy here:
💙💙💙
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...
New: Frances Presley-Black Fens Viral (Shearsman)
"Black Fens Viral began in summer 2020 when I was recovering from Covid. Lockdown was lifting & I was able to travel to Norfolk on the slow train which goes through the Black Fens of East Anglia..."—Frances Presley
www.shearsman.com/store/France...
"Black Fens Viral began in summer 2020 when I was recovering from Covid. Lockdown was lifting & I was able to travel to Norfolk on the slow train which goes through the Black Fens of East Anglia..."—Frances Presley
www.shearsman.com/store/France...
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New: Frances Presley-Black Fens Viral (Shearsman)
"Black Fens Viral began in summer 2020 when I was recovering from Covid. Lockdown was lifting & I was able to travel to Norfolk on the slow train which goes through the Black Fens of East Anglia..."—Frances Presley
www.shearsman.com/store/France...
"Black Fens Viral began in summer 2020 when I was recovering from Covid. Lockdown was lifting & I was able to travel to Norfolk on the slow train which goes through the Black Fens of East Anglia..."—Frances Presley
www.shearsman.com/store/France...
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...
www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...
May 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...
Jeremy Hooker & Lee Grandjean- Presence & Place (Shearsman)
"I have no record of the date when I first met Lee Grandjean but I remember the occasion well. It was towards the beginning of my period as creative writing fellow at Winchester School of Art…
Read more: www.shearsman.com/store/jeremy...
"I have no record of the date when I first met Lee Grandjean but I remember the occasion well. It was towards the beginning of my period as creative writing fellow at Winchester School of Art…
Read more: www.shearsman.com/store/jeremy...
May 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Jeremy Hooker & Lee Grandjean- Presence & Place (Shearsman)
"I have no record of the date when I first met Lee Grandjean but I remember the occasion well. It was towards the beginning of my period as creative writing fellow at Winchester School of Art…
Read more: www.shearsman.com/store/jeremy...
"I have no record of the date when I first met Lee Grandjean but I remember the occasion well. It was towards the beginning of my period as creative writing fellow at Winchester School of Art…
Read more: www.shearsman.com/store/jeremy...
The Opposite of Seduction: New Poetry in German, Alexander Kappe, Nicola Thomas & Jana Maria Weiß (eds)(Shearsman)
WINNER, English PEN Award.
Translated by various hands.
First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +.
www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...
WINNER, English PEN Award.
Translated by various hands.
First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +.
www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...
May 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Opposite of Seduction: New Poetry in German, Alexander Kappe, Nicola Thomas & Jana Maria Weiß (eds)(Shearsman)
WINNER, English PEN Award.
Translated by various hands.
First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +.
www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...
WINNER, English PEN Award.
Translated by various hands.
First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +.
www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...
Shearsman launch tomorrow night w/ @carrieetter.bsky.social, John Phillips & Frances Presley.
Tuesday 13 May, 7:30pm, Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry behind the Swedenborg Society shop through Hall's own portico)
Admission free
Tuesday 13 May, 7:30pm, Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry behind the Swedenborg Society shop through Hall's own portico)
Admission free
May 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Shearsman launch tomorrow night w/ @carrieetter.bsky.social, John Phillips & Frances Presley.
Tuesday 13 May, 7:30pm, Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry behind the Swedenborg Society shop through Hall's own portico)
Admission free
Tuesday 13 May, 7:30pm, Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry behind the Swedenborg Society shop through Hall's own portico)
Admission free
"There is little comfort here, but there is glamor in the inevitable, 'incidental' screen of darkness moving across the light. ..Donahue [is] one of the major American poets of this time."—John Ashbery
Joseph Donahue This to That & Thus: Poems 1983-1998 #shearsman
www.shearsman.com/store/joseph...
Joseph Donahue This to That & Thus: Poems 1983-1998 #shearsman
www.shearsman.com/store/joseph...
April 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"There is little comfort here, but there is glamor in the inevitable, 'incidental' screen of darkness moving across the light. ..Donahue [is] one of the major American poets of this time."—John Ashbery
Joseph Donahue This to That & Thus: Poems 1983-1998 #shearsman
www.shearsman.com/store/joseph...
Joseph Donahue This to That & Thus: Poems 1983-1998 #shearsman
www.shearsman.com/store/joseph...
Maria Barnas-Night Boat & other poems, tr. from Dutch by Donald Gardner.
"Maria Barnas’ witty & subversive poetry can be seen as a quest for an identity that always just eludes her...this poetry is quizzical, defiant & mocking."
Read more & pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Maria-...
"Maria Barnas’ witty & subversive poetry can be seen as a quest for an identity that always just eludes her...this poetry is quizzical, defiant & mocking."
Read more & pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Maria-...
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Maria Barnas-Night Boat & other poems, tr. from Dutch by Donald Gardner.
"Maria Barnas’ witty & subversive poetry can be seen as a quest for an identity that always just eludes her...this poetry is quizzical, defiant & mocking."
Read more & pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Maria-...
"Maria Barnas’ witty & subversive poetry can be seen as a quest for an identity that always just eludes her...this poetry is quizzical, defiant & mocking."
Read more & pick up yours here:
www.shearsman.com/store/Maria-...
SHEARSMAN BOOKS!
Jennifer Clement is the author of multiple books, including Widow Basquiat & Gun Love. She was awarded the NEA Fellowship for Literature & the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for Prayers for the Stolen. The president of PEN International, she currently lives in Mexico City...
Jennifer Clement is the author of multiple books, including Widow Basquiat & Gun Love. She was awarded the NEA Fellowship for Literature & the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for Prayers for the Stolen. The president of PEN International, she currently lives in Mexico City...
April 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
SHEARSMAN BOOKS!
Jennifer Clement is the author of multiple books, including Widow Basquiat & Gun Love. She was awarded the NEA Fellowship for Literature & the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for Prayers for the Stolen. The president of PEN International, she currently lives in Mexico City...
Jennifer Clement is the author of multiple books, including Widow Basquiat & Gun Love. She was awarded the NEA Fellowship for Literature & the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for Prayers for the Stolen. The president of PEN International, she currently lives in Mexico City...
Tomorrow in London! 💙💙💙
Shearsman Reading: Peter Larkin & Will Stone. Tuesday 8 April 2025, 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry is behind the Swedenborg Society shop through the Hall's own portico) ADMISSION FREE!
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Shearsman Reading: Peter Larkin & Will Stone. Tuesday 8 April 2025, 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry is behind the Swedenborg Society shop through the Hall's own portico) ADMISSION FREE!
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April 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Tomorrow in London! 💙💙💙
Shearsman Reading: Peter Larkin & Will Stone. Tuesday 8 April 2025, 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry is behind the Swedenborg Society shop through the Hall's own portico) ADMISSION FREE!
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Shearsman Reading: Peter Larkin & Will Stone. Tuesday 8 April 2025, 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH (a few yards off Bloomsbury Way; entry is behind the Swedenborg Society shop through the Hall's own portico) ADMISSION FREE!
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