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As the universe gangs.... An independent publisher of Scottish poetry pamphlets written in both Scots and English.

17/07/2025

From Reflections Glimmer (2025) by Jane Burn, Maria Schiza & Rosamund Taylor, Rosamund Taylor's 'World-Renowned Cellist, Yo-Yo Ma' after a photograph by Peter Sagal.

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Reflections Glimmer: poems exploring ekphrasis showcases the work of three poets who each bring their unique perspective to the art of ekphrastic poetry.

Jane Burn's Epigone presents a personal narrative upon grief, loss, mental health and disability, framed by the poems and prose of the writer and polymath Mervyn Peake. The poems in Maria Schiza's Facing explore the intersubjectivity of the self and the otherness found within, through paintings by artists such as Turner, Gaugin, and Alison Watt. And Rosamund Taylor's Brushstroke responds to a range of artistic inspirations, from Stubbs' 'Whistlejacket' to Star Trek: Deep Space 9, examining the primal nature of our creative urge and how it endures in the darkest moments of our lives.

Brought together, the poetry in Reflections Glimmer reminds us of the fundamental importance of art, literature and creativity to our lives, while giving homage to the writers, artists and creatives that inspire us.

Pick up yours here:

https://www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/reflections-glimmer/

10/07/2025

'Reading Edwin Morgan to French Hyperpop' from languishing, cute by lan Macartney & Maria Sledmere. 🖤💚

Our most recent publication!

languishing, cute presents 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.

"Here the poets tend towards e-pistolary contemplations of retro-adolescence, fizzy ecology and mercurial slippy gurlhood to complicate human. It's a leap from body/mind to capital/ digital and back again, flickering, a visit to Silicon Brig-a-Doon you'll want to be the first to Insta." - Richard Price

"Messy as a teenage tumblr, flashy as a strobe light, this is two exceptionally generous poets bouncing off the walls of the backrooms with the energy of a thousand monster energies."
- Dan Power

https://www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/languishing-cute/

08/07/2025

Big things ahead for Tapsalteerie! We’ve recruited Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity 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!

08/05/2025

We've got another belter of a book lined up for you this autumn - 'Weathershaker' by the brilliant Stewart Sanderson, a long-standing Tapsalteerie poet whose writing continues to absolutely blow us away!

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‘Weathershaker, of unknown meaning’ [Scottish National Dictionary]

'Weathershaker' begins with meanings lost, recovered and imagined. Digging into the material and textual record through place names, fictional histories, translations and fragmentary texts, Sanderson’s second full-length collection 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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"In this playful, engaging collection, Sanderson displays his natural gift for bringing the life back into words and the words back into life. His poems seethe with a mischievous intelligence - whether it's a poem generator, a handful of secrets from the God of Silence, or the nine mysterious definitions of the eponymous Weathershaker, he fuses skill, imagination and a ruthless intelligence into something quite unforgettable." - John Glenday

17/04/2025

Cover reveal!!

Introducing 'Dwell Time' by the amazing Taylor Strickland - coming your way late 2025. Exciting times!

'Dwell Time', the full-length debut from award-winning writer Taylor Strickland, begins from the idea that 'dwelling' requires both place and the experience of 'being-in-the-world'.

In taking us from the US to Scotland to Portugal, Strickland interrogates this central notion, along with ideas of non-place and environment to explore our contemporary experience of love, family, language, technology, career, and spirituality.

Ultimately these are poems that advocate for a world against isolation, one in which we go beyond our own witness to embrace another's, and shrink the distance between us.

24/03/2025

Introducing the tremendous 'languishing, cute', a collaboration between Ian Macartney and Maria Sledmere. We're publishing on 17th April but pre-orders are open now - head over to the Tapsalteerie bookshop to get your copy ordered!

https://www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/languishing-cute/

This is a real beauty of a collection - genuinely exciting and unique and absolutely one not to be missed. Keep an eye out for details of our launch at the Alchemy Experiment in Glasgow on 24th April too! 🥳

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'languishing, cute' presents 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. Here the poets tend towards e-pistolary contemplations of retro-adolescence, fizzy ecology and mercurial slippy gurlhood to complicate notions of Scottish identity, nationhood, ecology, nostalgia and more.

"languishing, cute is the opposite of a flyting — that traditional bare-knuckles fight between two poets. Rather, here Macartney and Sledmere offer their worlds to each other in the gift of friendship and they listen back: it’s not a duel, it’s a jewel [...] At times this is glitch-poetry, funny, para-kitsch and mesmeric. At other times there are the amplitudes of tenderness and self-effacement in a palette of citrus and greenest day-glo." (Richard Price)

25/02/2025

Our first book of 2025 is incoming!

Pre-orders are now open for **Reflections Glimmer: poems exploring ekphrasis** by Jane Burn, Maria Schiza & Rosamund Taylor. Order yours now so it drops through your door on or before the publication date of 3rd April!

'Reflections Glimmer' showcases the work of three poets who each bring their unique perspective to the art of ekphrastic poetry. Jane Burn’s 'Epigone' presents a personal narrative upon grief, loss, mental health and disability, framed by the poems and prose of the writer and polymath Mervyn Peake. The poems in Maria Schiza’s 'Facing' explore the intersubjectivity of the self and the otherness found within, through paintings by artists such as Turner, Gaugin, and Alison Watt. And Rosamund Taylor’s 'Brushstroke' responds to a range of artistic inspirations, from Stubbs’ ‘Whistlejacket’ to Star Trek: Deep Space 9, examining the primal nature of our creative urge and how it endures in the darkest moments of our lives.

This is a belter of a collection folks, so do make sure to click that link and get those orders in!

https://www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/reflections-glimmer/

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