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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity
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Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more! Founding Director: Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social
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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 13d
An extended review by David Vichnar on some of Ansgar Allen's recents www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen...
Ansgar Allen’s Experimental Fiction as Meta-Critique
Notes on The Wake and the Manuscript (2022); Plague Theatre (2022); Midden Hill (2025); Jonathan Martin (2025)
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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 9d
…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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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 9d
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, …
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 10d
Glad to have a short poem in this anthology for John Maclean, edited by Henry Bell and Joey Simons.
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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 10d
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…
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 16d
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 16d
Richard Berengarten—Imagems 3 (Shearsman)

“The age both of present-day poetry & of poetry-to-come is irreducibly & inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together w/his Imagems 1 & 2, Richard Berengarten’s third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational…
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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 10d
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…
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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 10d
…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…
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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 10d
…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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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 16d
…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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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 16d
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…
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 16d
Thanks to everyone who came, online and in person. If you missed it, you can pick up a copy of Time/Life here: renardpress.com/books/time-l...
Time/Life – Renard Press
Onstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a world-famous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and des...
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 16d
That’s a wrap! @mayeroflondon.bsky.social’s Scottish Time/Life @renardpress.com mini-tour is complete! Book signing @ Waterstones Glasgow & Uni of Glasgow’s Creative Conversations in convo w/Nicky Melville. Edinburgh leg: @typewronger.bsky.social chatting & time-travelling w/wonderful Joanna Baker…
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 16d
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 16d
Richard Berengarten—Imagems 3 (Shearsman)

“The age both of present-day poetry & of poetry-to-come is irreducibly & inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together w/his Imagems 1 & 2, Richard Berengarten’s third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational…
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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 17d
Review time, with two Shearsman titles:
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Two from Shearsman: A Review
Clio’s Ground: New and Selected Poems, Fergal Gaynor, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781848619654, £10.95 Buying the Farm (a georgics of sorts), Eliza O’Toole, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISB…
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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · Sep 2
Never entered a poetry competition before so THRILLED to be on the longlist. 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 Check out full longlist and preorder the anthology.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · Sep 2
Really delighted to spot @alysdragon.bsky.social on this long list, a lovely press and a great poem.
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Renard Press @renardpress.com · Sep 2
Delighted to announce the Interwoven #poetrycompetition longlist today, with huge thanks to the judges, who whittled down a phenomenal 700 entries to a longlist of 100 extraordinary poems. Huge congrats to all poets on the list, and thanks to all who entered!

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Sep 9
Been invited to speak at the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social Cabaret Day at the BL in October about my award-winning work on libraries and small presses so cheers to Will @renardpress.com for that. Was looking like i wasn't gonna get a London trip before the end of the year so this is most welcome 🙏
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 24d
If you can’t make the events, pick up a copy of this "feminist reimagining of H.G. Wells's Time Machine" direct from @renardpress.com. 🦊

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Time/Life – Renard Press
Onstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a world-famous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and des...
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social · 24d
One week today! Next Monday 22nd September, @mayeroflondon.bsky.social is in Scotland for two events! 1pm Glasgow, in conversation w/Nicky Melville @ Uni of Glasgow Creative Conversations, University Chapel. 7.30pm Edinburgh at Typewronger Books, in conversation w/Joanna Baker. Both events are FREE.
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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 24d
Really looking forward to talking to Miranda Ward (author of the wonderful 'Adrift') at
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in Summertown, Oxford tomorrow evening (September 16). Our conversation will, no doubt, be pretty wide-ranging. Come on down!
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Joanna Pocock in conversation with Miranda Ward
Buy tickets for the event with Joanna Pocock in conversation with Miranda Ward at Daunt Books Summertown from Daunt Books today.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 27d
virtual event next Saturday for Lit Balm!

going to be reading some surrealist poems alongside my Mercurius Magazine editors

DM me if you'd like a link ❤️

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 27d
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…
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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 27d
…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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