A selection of famous black & white photographs of poets, colourised by Tapsalteerie’s own Eddie Gibbons. Enjoy!
Poets in Colour
Readings From Hunger Like Starlings
The 2019 Edwin Morgan Translation Workshop (Scotland – Hungary) In 2019 the Edwin Morgan Trust brought three noted Hungarian poets to Scotland to take part in a translation workshop alongside three Scottish poets, facilitated by Ken Cockburn and with Mark Baczoni acting as a bridge translator. Tapsalteerie are delighted to publish some of the results…
“Through that strange and vast distance”- an interview with Russell Jones
Russell Jones’s “cocoon” is our first full-length collection by a single poet. To celebrate the book’s release Duncan from Tapsalteerie conducted a wee interview with the man himself, covering poetry, collaborations, and the great Edwin Morgan.
“The past has not passed”: An interview with Stewart Sanderson and Samuel Tongue
Where to begin summarising an interview like this! We spoke to Stewart Sanderson and Samuel Tongue about their recent pamphlets and got much more than we bargained for. From thylacines to mountainside verse, sestinas, and the impossibility of originality… Could you tell us a bit about your process and how your poems and/or collections take…
International Mother Tongue Day
Today is international mither tongue day, a celebration of ‘linguistic and cultural diversity’. Scotland has a troubled history with its own languages – as I’m sure many other nations have – and we’ve near enough managed to entirely kill off Gaelic and Scots. Here at Tapsalteerie we believe that the loss of a language is…
An Official Guide to Surviving the Invasion
We’ve just heard that Russell Jones’s poem, “An Official Guide to Surviving the Invasion”, is being made into a film – a horror that sees Scotland on the cusp of an unknown epidemic. Thanks to director Nathan Elliott and producers Misha McCullagh and Marian Roarty for picking up on Russell’s excellent work. You can read the poem…
Help us find out more about poetry reading habits
Tapsalteerie are trying to find out a bit more about how people read, and why people buy, poetry pamphlets. We’re hoping that the results will help both poets and publishers to figure out how best to reach readers with their work. We conducted a wee research pilot study at the StAnza poetry festival way back…
Russell Jones reading from “Dark Matters”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1p_5Zi6Vqo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaUXSJD7oEM Get the pamphlet here
“Synchronicity is everything”: An interview with Kate Tough
Kate Tough’s pamphlet of experimental and found poetry, tilt-shift, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2016, and since then has been named runner up for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award 2017, and noted in The Bottle Imp’s Best Scottish Books 2016. You might also know her as the poet behind a 2016 Best Scottish Poem, ‘People…
“Haiku moments can happen anywhere”: An interview with Iain Maloney
To launch Tapsalteerie’s very first Haiku Friday, we spoke to Iain Maloney about his recent first collection of poetry, Fractures, published by Tapsalteerie last year. Maloney was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland and he currently lives in Japan. He is known for his three novels – The Waves Burn Bright (Freight, 2016), Silma Hill (Freight, 2015)…