Tapsalteerie

14/01/2025

Our first poetry event of the year is next month! We're kicking off another big year for our wee press with readings from two of the finest, Mae Diansangu & Rachel Plummer, at the Lighthouse bookshop in Edinburgh on 11th February. It's going to be a brilliant evening at one of our favourite bookshops so do come along!

Tickets here:

https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/tapsalteerie-poetry-night-rachel-plummer-and-mae-diansangu

06/12/2024

Earlier this year we collaborated with the University of Glasgow and Ukrainian designers and artists Oleksandra Novatska, Anastasia Taranets, and Nadiia Bedrinan, on Власними словами / IN OUR OWN WORDS – a book that arose from workshops bringing Ukrainians in Glasgow together with other Glaswegians, using creative writing and multilingual translation to build confidence, community and mutual understanding.

In the run up to Christmas we're including a free copy of 'In Our Own Words' with each order made through the Tapsalteerie website, and we're also making a donation of £1 per order to KHARPP, a charity working to rebuild homes and support communities in eastern Ukraine.

It's been a strong year for Tapsalteerie and we're super proud of all the books we've released over the last 12 months - check out the comments for more details on each of them, and head over to the bookshop to get some of the best poetry Scotland has to offer!

https://www.tapsalteerie.co.uk

22/11/2024

Delighted to see Mae & Bloodsongs featured as part of the Publishing Scotland 2024 showcase - catch Mae reading and discussing her work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05L5I1Zxgjw

And big thanks to Books from Scotland for including us!

01/11/2024

Our imprint Stewed Rhubarb Press recently launched this beauty of a book (it has foil blocking on the cover! And loads of high quality reproductions from the Hunterian Collection too!) which is making an appearance at Toppings in Edinburgh next week - Tuesday 5th November to be precise. If you're around in the capital then please do head on down, it'll be a great event led by Alan Riach with some excellent poets reading their work too.

Join an array of poets including Alan Riach for a reading of selected works from the third volume in The Hunterian Poems series: Hunter’s Voices.

23/09/2024

Pre-orders for Bloodsongs by Mae Diansangu are now open! Order now and it should drop through your door either on or before the publication date of this Saturday.

And remember, we're launching it as part of the WayWord festival in Aberdeen, get onto their website and check out not just the Tapsalteerie events (Shane Strachan is reading from DWAMS on Friday!) but also the other great things on offer. It's a superb programme they've put together.

“Diansangu’s poems clot beautifully under your skin, the words rolling your tongue to break complicity and silence. These poems bite with wet, sparkling, granite teeth.” – Jeda Pearl

Shifting between English and North-east Scots, Bloodsongs is an ode to matters of the blood: q***r carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth; and how history is felt in the body. "A vital debut collection" - Jeda Pearl

19/09/2024

Absolutely thrilled to have not one but TWO poetry books make the longlist for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Huge congratulations to Shane Strachan and Rebecca Sharp for making the list with their debut full-length collections, which is a real achievement!

https://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/the-saltire-society-literary-awards-2024-longlist

03/09/2024

Massively excited to be showing off the cover for our latest poetry book - Bloodsongs by the amazing Mae Diansangu. We're launching on the 28th September at Aberdeen's WayWORD festival, in a joint event with none other than Grace Nichols!

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wayword-festival/grace-nichols-mae-diansangu/e-lbqppz

Shifting between English and North-east Scots, Bloodsongs is an ode to matters of the blood: q***r carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth; how history is felt in the body. Offering retellings of legends and biblical stories as well as perspectives on injustices faced today, Mae Diansangu’s radical debut collection marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in Scottish poetry.

"Diansangu disrupts colonial and heteronormative conceptions of the past by giving voice in Scots and English to q***r, Black and feminist perspectives that have been overlooked for far too long. An essential read." - Shane Strachan

"These poems are anthems of q***rness, love and rage. Savour the calm and the storm as this collection steals your heart and churns it in an emotional washing machine with fierce veracity and tender care." - Jo Gilbert

"Playful and precise, Diansangu dances between moments of humour and deep luminous observations of what it is to inhabit a Black body." - Andrés N. Ordorica

"Diansangu's poems clot beautifully under your skin, the words rolling your tongue to break complicity and silence. These poems bite with wet, sparkling, granite teeth ... a vital debut collection." - Jeda Pearl

25/07/2024

It's publication day! Get your copies of **Once I Carried Three Crows** by Rachel Plummer here - hot off the press!

'Once I Carried Three Crows' is the highly anticipated new poetry collection from Edinburgh-based poet & writer Rachel Plummer

16/07/2024

The irregular Tapsalteerie newsletter - Once I Carried Three Crows by Rachel Plummer - https://mailchi.mp/f4e97eb715ba/new-publications-events-16198382

11/07/2024

We have a new book!!

'Once I Carried Three Crows' by Rachel Plummer is out on the 25th July, that's two weeks today!

This is a stunning collection of new poetry by Rachel, one we're super proud of publishing. Head over to Eventbrite to sign up for the online launch (through Zoom) on the 25th, or indeed follow the link in the comments below to pre-order your copy through the Tapsalteerie bookshop.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/once-i-carried-three-crows-book-launch-tickets-945601287907

13/06/2024

This is next week, a poetry-music-film extravaganza in celebration of the Long Field Loop launch. We'll have readings from Rebecca Sharp and guest poets Stewart Sanderson & MacGillivray, a screening of the film-poem Vellela Vellela (dir. Steve Smart), a performance of Comma of Didymus by Sharp (words, clarsach) and Alex South (clarinets, electronics), and the debut of poetry jam-band Codrach. See ya there!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/long-field-loop-tickets-913855214547

30/05/2024

Long Field Loop hits Glasgow on the 19th June at the Old Hairdressers - readings from Rebecca herself (of course) and the respectively wonderful Stewart Sanderson and MacGillivray, and also featuring the debut of the all-star poetry-adjacent band Codrach. This is going to be a cracking evening folks, get your tickets via Evenbrite and we'll see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/long-field-loop-tickets-913855214547

23/05/2024

It's publication day! Get your copies of Long Field Loop here, hot off the press!

"an extraordinary, utterly unique collection ... an antidote to the Anthropocene" - John Glenday **Publication date 23 May 2024; pre-orders now open**  

20/05/2024

We have a new book! Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp - artist page launches itself into the world on Thursday at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews. And quite honestly folks, you really don't want to miss this one - Rebecca is an extraordinary poet who has produced something quite special with this collection. Come!

6.00pm - FREE but please book This is the In Person event. To book for the Online version, please click HERE. Join Poet, playwright, and interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Sharp for the finale of her Centre for Energy Ethics residency, where she will launch her new collection of poems, Long Field Loop...

30/04/2024

Trailer for Long Field Loop, a new poetry collection by Rebecca Sharp

23/04/2024

DWAMS by the wonderful Shane Strachan hits Edinburgh tomorrow evening at Lighthouse Books, swiftly followed by Glasgow the next night at Waterstones Byres Road. Catch you there!