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. 🪩 👻
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...
“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
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...
“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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Kristjan Haljak & I will be performing our collaborative piece at the Estonian poetry night of the European Poetry Festival at
@poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June.
Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤
Line-up so far here:
www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
@poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June.
Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤
Line-up so far here:
www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Kristjan Haljak & I will be performing our collaborative piece at the Estonian poetry night of the European Poetry Festival at
@poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June.
Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤
Line-up so far here:
www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
@poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June.
Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤
Line-up so far here:
www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
I have new visual work-four more from my Kaleidoscopix series-up at @rangermagazine.bsky.social!
Thanks to editor David A. Bishop for publishing.
It's a double issue, so lots to explore!
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
rangermagazine.net/issue10
Thanks to editor David A. Bishop for publishing.
It's a double issue, so lots to explore!
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
rangermagazine.net/issue10
April 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have new visual work-four more from my Kaleidoscopix series-up at @rangermagazine.bsky.social!
Thanks to editor David A. Bishop for publishing.
It's a double issue, so lots to explore!
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
rangermagazine.net/issue10
Thanks to editor David A. Bishop for publishing.
It's a double issue, so lots to explore!
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
rangermagazine.net/issue10
Tonight's the night! Calling all sleep-texters, ambient poets, soundscapers &
somnambulists!
KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER • Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop •Inside Voices & SPAM Press
We wrote a dreamy poetry play & will perform it this evening w/live score.
somnambulists!
KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER • Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop •Inside Voices & SPAM Press
We wrote a dreamy poetry play & will perform it this evening w/live score.
April 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tonight's the night! Calling all sleep-texters, ambient poets, soundscapers &
somnambulists!
KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER • Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop •Inside Voices & SPAM Press
We wrote a dreamy poetry play & will perform it this evening w/live score.
somnambulists!
KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER • Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop •Inside Voices & SPAM Press
We wrote a dreamy poetry play & will perform it this evening w/live score.
It was a pleasure to review Lee Sumyeong’s Just Like, translated by Colin Leemarshall published by
@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in @exactingclam.bsky.social
recently. When I posted about this originally, I didn’t realise the review’s online too! You can read here:
exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...!
@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in @exactingclam.bsky.social
recently. When I posted about this originally, I didn’t realise the review’s online too! You can read here:
exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...!
April 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It was a pleasure to review Lee Sumyeong’s Just Like, translated by Colin Leemarshall published by
@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in @exactingclam.bsky.social
recently. When I posted about this originally, I didn’t realise the review’s online too! You can read here:
exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...!
@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in @exactingclam.bsky.social
recently. When I posted about this originally, I didn’t realise the review’s online too! You can read here:
exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...!
April 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Twilight blossom vs. Victorian fountain blossom
April 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Twilight blossom vs. Victorian fountain blossom
Next up #wavebooks Kate Durbin’s Hoarders.
Excited for this after Kate's AWP LA offsite reading.
#nextread #katedurbin
Wave Books 092
Excited for this after Kate's AWP LA offsite reading.
#nextread #katedurbin
Wave Books 092
April 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Next up #wavebooks Kate Durbin’s Hoarders.
Excited for this after Kate's AWP LA offsite reading.
#nextread #katedurbin
Wave Books 092
Excited for this after Kate's AWP LA offsite reading.
#nextread #katedurbin
Wave Books 092
Squirrel watching with Beckett.
Him watching squirrels 🐿️ me watching him.
Him watching squirrels 🐿️ me watching him.
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Squirrel watching with Beckett.
Him watching squirrels 🐿️ me watching him.
Him watching squirrels 🐿️ me watching him.
Nice colour snap by Catharine Braithwaite of me & Billy Fuller repping Bristol at the Sleeve Notes event in Manchester @anthonyburgess.bsky.social on Saturday.
April 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Nice colour snap by Catharine Braithwaite of me & Billy Fuller repping Bristol at the Sleeve Notes event in Manchester @anthonyburgess.bsky.social on Saturday.
Excited to be part of this Inside Voices SPAM takeover—a collaborative performance themed around sleep texting—next Wednesday at legendary
Glasgow music venue King Tut's!
23rd APRIL • KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER
• Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Olafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop
💜💤💭🌈🖤📱 🛌💤 🐑
Glasgow music venue King Tut's!
23rd APRIL • KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER
• Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Olafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop
💜💤💭🌈🖤📱 🛌💤 🐑
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Excited to be part of this Inside Voices SPAM takeover—a collaborative performance themed around sleep texting—next Wednesday at legendary
Glasgow music venue King Tut's!
23rd APRIL • KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER
• Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Olafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop
💜💤💭🌈🖤📱 🛌💤 🐑
Glasgow music venue King Tut's!
23rd APRIL • KING TUT'S • SPAM TAKE-OVER
• Vik Shirley • Maria Sledmere • Karólína Rós Olafsdóttir • Kirsty Dunlop
💜💤💭🌈🖤📱 🛌💤 🐑
The @neonpajamas.bsky.social curated Kulak’s Woodshed LA reading is on YouTube!
[ft. Dashiel Carrera, Vik Shirley, C.T. Salazar, Shivani Mehta, Henry Hoke, Sawako Nakayasu, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Joanna Ruocco, Julián Martinez, Kathryn Scanlan, & Jose Hernandez Diaz]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bu...
[ft. Dashiel Carrera, Vik Shirley, C.T. Salazar, Shivani Mehta, Henry Hoke, Sawako Nakayasu, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Joanna Ruocco, Julián Martinez, Kathryn Scanlan, & Jose Hernandez Diaz]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bu...
April 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The @neonpajamas.bsky.social curated Kulak’s Woodshed LA reading is on YouTube!
[ft. Dashiel Carrera, Vik Shirley, C.T. Salazar, Shivani Mehta, Henry Hoke, Sawako Nakayasu, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Joanna Ruocco, Julián Martinez, Kathryn Scanlan, & Jose Hernandez Diaz]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bu...
[ft. Dashiel Carrera, Vik Shirley, C.T. Salazar, Shivani Mehta, Henry Hoke, Sawako Nakayasu, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Joanna Ruocco, Julián Martinez, Kathryn Scanlan, & Jose Hernandez Diaz]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bu...
Couple of me & Billy Fuller on stage at the Sleeve Notes event in Manchester on Saturday. You can listen to our track 'Schoenberg Express' on Bandcamp along with the rest of the album.
sleeve-notes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeve...
sleeve-notes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeve...
April 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Couple of me & Billy Fuller on stage at the Sleeve Notes event in Manchester on Saturday. You can listen to our track 'Schoenberg Express' on Bandcamp along with the rest of the album.
sleeve-notes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeve...
sleeve-notes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeve...
Coming home to this boy rules. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
April 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Coming home to this boy rules. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Manchester never disappoints. Best city. 🖤
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Manchester never disappoints. Best city. 🖤
Then an afternoon of surreal and absurd poetry at P3 Annihilation Eve on Sunday (w/worst hangover in world) reading w/ @postpran.bsky.social, @tothemadpoets.bsky.social, @tomjenksuk.bsky.social & @tomjenksuk.bsky.social’s clockwork rabbits. 🐰
Thanks to EVERYONE who came. Lovely to see so many folk.
Thanks to EVERYONE who came. Lovely to see so many folk.
April 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Then an afternoon of surreal and absurd poetry at P3 Annihilation Eve on Sunday (w/worst hangover in world) reading w/ @postpran.bsky.social, @tothemadpoets.bsky.social, @tomjenksuk.bsky.social & @tomjenksuk.bsky.social’s clockwork rabbits. 🐰
Thanks to EVERYONE who came. Lovely to see so many folk.
Thanks to EVERYONE who came. Lovely to see so many folk.
What a weekend in Manchester! Reading/performing at 2events. Sublime evening of music&lit collab at Sleeve Notes @anthonyburgess.bsky.social! Had blast performing our track Schoenberg Express live w/Billy Fuller. Event pics to come. Curated/organised @ggaffa.bsky.social & @adrianslatcher.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What a weekend in Manchester! Reading/performing at 2events. Sublime evening of music&lit collab at Sleeve Notes @anthonyburgess.bsky.social! Had blast performing our track Schoenberg Express live w/Billy Fuller. Event pics to come. Curated/organised @ggaffa.bsky.social & @adrianslatcher.bsky.social
A double Hoke: best consumed in quick succession.
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@henryhoke.bsky.social
@wtawpress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
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@henryhoke.bsky.social
@wtawpress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A double Hoke: best consumed in quick succession.
💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
@henryhoke.bsky.social
@wtawpress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
@henryhoke.bsky.social
@wtawpress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
This Saturday night (12th April) Record Store Day it's Sleeve Notes—new writing & new music live at Anthony Burgess centre Manchester. Tix sold out but few more released. Billy Fuller & I will be performing our collaborative composition 'Schoenberg Express. 🖤
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sleeve-not...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sleeve-not...
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This Saturday night (12th April) Record Store Day it's Sleeve Notes—new writing & new music live at Anthony Burgess centre Manchester. Tix sold out but few more released. Billy Fuller & I will be performing our collaborative composition 'Schoenberg Express. 🖤
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sleeve-not...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sleeve-not...
This Sunday in Manchester. 4pm.
🦌🌈🤸🤡🤠👻🦆🐰
@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
🦌🌈🤸🤡🤠👻🦆🐰
@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This Sunday in Manchester. 4pm.
🦌🌈🤸🤡🤠👻🦆🐰
@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
🦌🌈🤸🤡🤠👻🦆🐰
@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
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
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
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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
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
