Vik Shirley

Did you miss the Easy Tiger virtual launch on Sunday? You can rest easy now, because the full reading is up on YouTube!

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Colour photograph with L to R poets Vik Shirley, Rosie Garland, Janette Ayachi, Jane Goldman

Oh, what a night!
Had a flippin lovely time at @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh last night, launching This Is How I Fight 💜💜💜

A delight to read with @vikshirley.bsky.social Janette Ayachi & Jane Goldman!✨✨✨

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Image shows event announcement for book launch of This Is How I Fight 23 July

Image is black text on yellow background - event information for launch of poetry collection This is How I Fight

Next week Weds 23 July I’m thrilled to be visiting @lighthousebks in Edinburgh!

Sharing a poetry stage with fabulous Janette Ayachi @vikshirley.bsky.social @janegoldman.bsky.social ✨💜✨

AND it’s available online too 🌹

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@futuretensebooks.bsky.social / @zacharyschomburg.bsky.social / @markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social

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”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world”

Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine.

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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:

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Spotted in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh yesterday on the 'Bookseller Favourites' shelf @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Time|Life published by @renardpress.com!

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”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world”

Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine.

🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...

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Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆

languishing, cute by Ian Macartney & Maria Sledmere - Tapsalteerie 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, Celti...

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

languishing, cute presents a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon into a maximalist ‘high femme goth surrealism’ via hyperpop, Celtic futurism & digital culture.

EASY TIGER: a virtual reading, Evan Nicholls reading from his new book, Easy Tiger, July 27 at 4pm ET, with readings from Mark Leidner, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin, and Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

I'm hosting a super cool virtual reading at the end of the month to celebrate Evan's new book! Featuring some of my favorite writers on this planet

RSVP for free: bit.ly/easytigerlaunch

@markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social / @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

Disrupted Blue is excited to now be working w/Scottish press @tapsalteerie.bsky.social
& their imprint Stewed Rhubarb! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

We'll be sharing lots from their books & pamphlets soon, but in meantime, you can browse the already impressive back catalogue of this up & coming press!
www.tapsalteerie.co.uk

Big things ahead for Tapsalteerie and our imprint Stewed Rhubarb!

We’ve recruited @disruptedblue.bsky.social 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!

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Not really posting on here anymore/at the moment. Don’t have the energy for all the different platforms. I’m over at the more visual place if anyone needs me/wants to follow. Checking in here now again though & will retweet stuff if tagged.

Stop the genocide & free Palestine. 🇵🇸

I got inspiration from AI adverts for loft insulation removal for my piece, “Jean Baudrillard Got Fucked Up at the Foam Party”, up now at @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social, along with lots of brilliant work by @hesterglock.bsky.social @lauradavispoems.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social & more

Thoroughly delighted that my essay "The Time of Suspense and The Time of Suspension" (p.12) has found a home in issue 6 of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social alongside @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social et al. All thanks to Daniele Pantano and editors at TLR www.lincolnreview.org/issue6

Spent sunset and the solstice with James Turrell’s Skyspace The Way of Color (2009). Here are a few of my photos across about an hour. Dedicated to @vikshirley.bsky.social, who joined me & @shmonkey.bsky.social on our last Turrell visitation in Houston.

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda album cover. The artist sat against an orange background.

In this month’s podcast, John Doran and Luke Turner discuss Alice Coltrane’s 1971 classic of personal, spiritual and musical transformation and transcendence

Low Culture Podcast: #AliceColtrane’s Journey In Satchidananda

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Just saw your email! Leave with me and I will look into and sort. Gimme a few days and I’ll be back with an update. Sorry this has happened! I’m on the case, and it will be resolved! Vx

The title of @carrieetter.bsky.social’s 'Veer, Oscillate, Rest' (Shearsman) conveys the energy & interest range of these poems, from Trump’s first presidency, to environmental disaster, to Brexit, to the ‘teeming’, lived conjunction of embodiment & consciousness...

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Thank you, deer Ian. 🦌 ❤️ I do think it’s the best thing I’ve written so far. Makes me very happy to know you’re enjoying it. Given how wonderful your own work is. x

My deer! 🦌🦌🦌

Thank you, Ian!

Available @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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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

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!

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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.

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...!

We try to put all reviews online for the use of publishers, critics and readers. See our review archive: www.exactingclam.com/reviews/

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...!

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