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/
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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.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
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.
….speaks of the past from an unsteady present. In a small country of big winds and shifting light, where the weather itself is shaken by our actions as a species, these poems turn towards a contingent future while seeking meaning gone astray.
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Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson (pre-order) - Tapsalteerie
*Pre-order for publication date of 01 November 2025* ‘Weathershaker, of unknown meaning’ [Scottish National Dictionary] Weathershaker begins with meanings lost, recovered and imagined. Digging into th...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
….speaks of the past from an unsteady present. In a small country of big winds and shifting light, where the weather itself is shaken by our actions as a species, these poems turn towards a contingent future while seeking meaning gone astray.
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…carefully pulling us through the magic of queer kin-making and towards a sense of reciprocity and belonging.
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All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon
“Poems full of play and song and mourning.” – Miriam Nash
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September 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
…carefully pulling us through the magic of queer kin-making and towards a sense of reciprocity and belonging.
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…this book is a celebration of Maclean, and a call to arms to keep fighting for a world held in common.
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Now's The Day, Now's The Hour: Poems for John Maclean - Tapsalteerie
Edited by Henry Bell & Joey Simons, Now’s The Day, Now’s The Hour collects together poems and songs in tribute to the revolutionary life and legacy of John Maclean (1879–1923) on the centenary of his ...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
…this book is a celebration of Maclean, and a call to arms to keep fighting for a world held in common.
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…has long inspired Scotland’s greatest poets and songwriters. Featuring new work from Jackie Kay, Juana Adcock, William Letford, Josie Giles and others, alongside the classic songs and poems of Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Morgan, Sorley Maclean and Mary Brooksbank…
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
…has long inspired Scotland’s greatest poets and songwriters. Featuring new work from Jackie Kay, Juana Adcock, William Letford, Josie Giles and others, alongside the classic songs and poems of Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Morgan, Sorley Maclean and Mary Brooksbank…
…It is a love letter to Black women, all of us whose identities face marginalisation and those who bear witness and speak up, as we continue to collectively raise our voices for liberation.
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In Wolf’s Skin by Titilayo Farukuoye
A memorandum of strength, fierceness and love, speaking to the importance of standing for a world you want to live in…
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September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
…It is a love letter to Black women, all of us whose identities face marginalisation and those who bear witness and speak up, as we continue to collectively raise our voices for liberation.
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Stewed Rhubarb Press
A poetry publisher from Scotland
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September 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
…Words unravel from deep time to the Anthropocene and our collapsing ecosystems, asking: what is hope in these times?
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Blue: A Lament for the Sea by Liz Macwhirter (pre-order)
‘a powerful work of mourning and hauntings’ – CJ Cooke
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September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
…Words unravel from deep time to the Anthropocene and our collapsing ecosystems, asking: what is hope in these times?
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… - a space where land, humans and more-than-humans explore patterns of experience in times of reckoning.
Rebecca Sharp is a poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow, now based in Fife.
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Rebecca Sharp is a poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow, now based in Fife.
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Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp - Tapsalteerie
"an extraorinary, utterly unique collection ... an antidote to the Anthopocene" - John Glenday Longlisted for the Saltire Society's Poetry Book of Year award 2024.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
… - a space where land, humans and more-than-humans explore patterns of experience in times of reckoning.
Rebecca Sharp is a poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow, now based in Fife.
Read more and pick up yours here:
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Rebecca Sharp is a poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow, now based in Fife.
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Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
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August 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Jason just shared this and it pretty much says everything I feel about the situation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...