A selection of famous black & white photographs of poets, colourised by Tapsalteerie’s own Eddie Gibbons. Enjoy!
Poets in Colour
Author: Duncan Lockerbie
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.
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…
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
Ch-ch-changes
It’s exciting times here at Tapsalteerie Touers, as after an exceptional response to our recent plea for help I can now announce fully three new members of the Tapsalteerie team. I was blown away by the instant and many offers of help I received – how wonderful that so many people were so enthusiastic about…
Help required!
It’s time to admit it, Tapsalteerie needs help. I simply don’t have enough spare time to do everything that could be done. So I’m shining whatever the poetry equivalent of the bat-signal is into the crisp, clear Aberdeenshire night sky. If the idea of getting involved in a Scottish poetry micro-press tickles your fancy then…