Tapsalteerie
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An independent poetry publishing house based in rural Aberdeenshire | www.tapsalteerie.co.uk | join the Scottish poetry Discord: discord.gg/9bC6Gp2ZJM | & check out our imprint Stewed Rhubarb Press: https://stewedrhubarb.org/
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:
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Join us for gorgeous evening of poetry & books at the Fruitmarket!
Link to book here:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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...
Join us for gorgeous evening of poetry & books at the Fruitmarket!
Link to book here:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...
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…
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…
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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…
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…
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...
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...
October 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...
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...
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, …
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, …
September 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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, …
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, …
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…
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…
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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…
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…
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…
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…
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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…
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…
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…
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…
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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…
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…
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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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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September 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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! 🥹
🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
Congratulations, Mae! 👏
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹
🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
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…
“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…
September 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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…
“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…
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.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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.
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Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams.
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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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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…
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams.
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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…
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
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…
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…🌅
(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…🌅
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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…🌅
(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…🌅
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…
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…
August 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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…
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…
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:
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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:
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August 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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...
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:
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We are THRILLED to announce that Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu has been longlisted for the 2025 Polari First Book Prize! Congratulations Mae! Thank you judges! 🥳🙏🎉
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August 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We are THRILLED to announce that Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu has been longlisted for the 2025 Polari First Book Prize! Congratulations Mae! Thank you judges! 🥳🙏🎉
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Come join us on Monday 11th August at Typewronger Books!
Eloise Birtwhistle will be reading from her new collection Splenectomy—published by our imprint Stewed Rhubard—as part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe!
The event will be chaired by our own Charlie Roy.
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Eloise Birtwhistle will be reading from her new collection Splenectomy—published by our imprint Stewed Rhubard—as part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe!
The event will be chaired by our own Charlie Roy.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Come join us on Monday 11th August at Typewronger Books!
Eloise Birtwhistle will be reading from her new collection Splenectomy—published by our imprint Stewed Rhubard—as part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe!
The event will be chaired by our own Charlie Roy.
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www.eventbrite.com/e/splenectom...
Eloise Birtwhistle will be reading from her new collection Splenectomy—published by our imprint Stewed Rhubard—as part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe!
The event will be chaired by our own Charlie Roy.
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www.eventbrite.com/e/splenectom...
Huge thanks to Stuart Kelly for this review of Eloise Birtwhistle in The Scotsman! @scotsman.com
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July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Huge thanks to Stuart Kelly for this review of Eloise Birtwhistle in The Scotsman! @scotsman.com
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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...
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...
July 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
July 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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...
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...
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.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.
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From Eloise Birtwhistle’s Splenectomy published by Stewed Rhubarb, our sibling press!
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Eloise Birtwhistle's debut pamphlet puts the body and its histories under a scrutinizing lens in a study of our physical and mental agency...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
From Eloise Birtwhistle’s Splenectomy published by Stewed Rhubarb, our sibling press!
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Eloise Birtwhistle's debut pamphlet puts the body and its histories under a scrutinizing lens in a study of our physical and mental agency...
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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.
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
'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.
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.
!!Cover reveal!!
Introducing Weathershaker by the wonderful Stewart Sanderson, forthcoming this autumn. This is an absolute belter of a book folks, keep an eye out for more details as we get closer to the launch date!
Introducing Weathershaker by the wonderful Stewart Sanderson, forthcoming this autumn. This is an absolute belter of a book folks, keep an eye out for more details as we get closer to the launch date!
May 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
!!Cover reveal!!
Introducing Weathershaker by the wonderful Stewart Sanderson, forthcoming this autumn. This is an absolute belter of a book folks, keep an eye out for more details as we get closer to the launch date!
Introducing Weathershaker by the wonderful Stewart Sanderson, forthcoming this autumn. This is an absolute belter of a book folks, keep an eye out for more details as we get closer to the launch date!
This Thursday we launch languishing, cute - 'a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon of Morgan, Gray and Mitchison into a maximalist high femme goth surrealism via hyperpop, Celtic futurism and digital culture'. Hopefully see some of yous there!
April 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This Thursday we launch languishing, cute - 'a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon of Morgan, Gray and Mitchison into a maximalist high femme goth surrealism via hyperpop, Celtic futurism and digital culture'. Hopefully see some of yous there!